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• a  of or relating to menstruation or the menses
  menstrual period

• Women who work or live together tend to get their menstrual cycles in sync.
• To treat heavy menstrual bleeding, patients can use an interuterine device (IUD) coated with the hormone levonorgestrel, a type of progesterone.
• Menstrual extraction is designed to be done no later than six weeks after the woman's last menstrual period, when proof of pregnancy by ordinary tests is sometimes difficult to .

• catamenial

News & Articles

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• Hot flashes common even before menopause
  By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Most women expect hot flashes as a part of the "change of life," but more than half start sweating before menopause has actually begun, according to a survey. The study and others "indicate that women start having hot flashes and night sweats, the primary symptoms of the menopause transition, before they have their final menstrual period, contrary to ...
  June 19, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Joan Rivers in Examiner.com
  Rivers told Access Hollywood, "What happened was I got a lady who was pre-menstrual. I got a lady who didn't want to know that [she] had made a mistake. Didn't understand the passport. That it was an, 'also-known-as.'"
• Helen Fisher in The Money Times
  Fisher explained that, "The hypothesis is they're trying to get small traces of estrogen to see where the woman is in her menstrual cycle to indicate the state of her fertility. There are others who think that women use smell as they are kissing to...
• Arnold Schwarzenegger in Contactmusic.com
  Schwarzenegger explained, "If we get rid of the moon, women, whose menstrual cycles are governed by the moon, will not get PMS. They will stop bitching and whining."