catamenial
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The principle or condition peculiar to the female sex is the management of the catamenial function, which, from the age of fourteen to nineteen, includes the building of the reproductive apparatus.
From Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls by Edward Hammond Clarke
It is probably the influence of these primitive ideas which has caused surgeons and gynæcologists to dread operations during the catamenial period.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism by Havelock Ellis
My Dear Doctor,—I have great pleasure in answering your inquiries in regard to the course, which, to my knowledge, German mothers adopt with their daughters at the catamenial period.
From Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls by Edward Hammond Clarke
But after this she suffered for a couple of months from a very peculiar discharge after the catamenial flux.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
While a student, she wrought continuously,—just as much during each catamenial week as at other times.
From Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls by Edward Hammond Clarke
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