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menstruum
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Noun
  • the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
    • the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation
    • a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped--Hippocrates
    • the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females--Aristotle
  • (archaic) a solvent
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