luteal
- a of or relating to the corpus luteum
- The upset was caused either by a failure to ovulate (or produce an egg) or by a shortened "luteal phase," a critical stage of the menstrual cycle during which the hormone .
- Young women do better on Sherwin's word-pair memory tests during the luteal phase of their cycle, when estrogen and progesterone levels are high, than during menstruation, when .