catamenia
Americannoun
plural noun
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Etymology
Origin of catamenia
1745–55; < New Latin < Greek katamḗnia, neuter plural of Greek katamḗnios monthly, equivalent to kata- cata- + mḗn month + -ios -ious
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She worked in a man's sustained way, ignoring all demands for special development, and essaying first to dis-establish, and then to bridle, the catamenia.
From Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls by Edward Hammond Clarke
Thus it is known who have their catamenia and who have not.
From Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 03 by Charles P. (Charles Pomeroy) Otis
The other did not marry, and although not a dwarf, was under-sized; she had her catamenia every third week.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Dupuytren speaks of denudation of the skin from a burn, with the subsequent development of vicarious catamenia from the seat of the injury.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
The correspondence of the periods of the catamenia with those of the moon was treated of in Sect.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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