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Meaning of menses

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  menses
      n 1: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of
           nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women
           were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a
           woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"
           --Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to
           be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia
           begin to flow in females"--Aristotle [syn: {menstruation},
           {menses}, {menstruum}, {catamenia}, {period}, {flow}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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