metrorrhagia
[mee-truh-rey-jee-uh, -juh, me-]
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noun Pathology.
nonmenstrual discharge of blood from the uterus; uterine hemorrhage.
Nearby words
- metropolitan district,
- metropolitan museum of art,
- metropolitan opera,
- metropolitanism,
- metropolitanize,
- metrorrhea,
- metrosalpingitis,
- metrosalpingography,
- metroscope,
- metrosexual
Origin of metrorrhagia
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Menorrhagia and metrorrhagia commonly have an identical cause and they frequently coexist.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine|Austin MalleyThere is, indeed, no surer way of checking or of stopping a metrorrhagia than by curetting the womb during the very flow.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6)|Havelock Ellis
metrorrhagia
noun
Word Origin for metrorrhagia
C19 NL, from Gk, mētra womb + -rraghia a breaking forth
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metrorrhagia
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