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
Example Sentences
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Has not your lady, may I ask, heretofore at the period of the catamenia, suffered, if indeed not from anaemia, then necessarily from plethora?
From Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly
Whether it be merely a coincidence I am unable to say, but it is true that the majority of these cases have been in young females just after the establishment of the catamenia.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
They have the following custom when they have their catamenia: the wives withdraw from their husbands, or the daughter from her father and mother and other relatives, and go to certain small houses.
From Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 03 by Charles P. (Charles Pomeroy) Otis
I am assured by some persons of credit, that if they are touched, or even approached, by a woman in her catamenia, they infallibly expire.
From Travels through France and Italy by T. (Tobias) Smollett
Her catamenia were very scant, but this was attributed to her change of life.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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