MENSES

menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow

(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

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

menses pl (plural only)

The discharge of blood mixed with pieces of cellular tissue from the uterus out through the vagina, which occurs roughly every month in uninseminated women; menstrual flow.

Anagrams

• meness, mesnes

Source: Wiktionary


Men"ses, n. pl. Etym: [L. mensis month, pl. menses months, and the monthly courses of women. Cf. Month.] (Med.)

Definition: The catamenial or menstrual discharge, a periodic flow of blood or bloody fluid from the uterus or female generative organs.

MENSE

Mense, n. Etym: [OE. menske, AS. mennisc human, man. See Man.]

Definition: Manliness; dignity; comeliness; civility. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

– Mense"ful, a.

– Mense"less, a.

Mense, v. t.

Definition: To grace. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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