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Absolute amenorrhoea is a complete absence of menstruation for several months; relative amenorrhoea is delayed, scant menstruation.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

Fright, grief, great anxiety, mental shock cause amenorrhoea; so do homesickness and many forms of insanity.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

Take a teaspoonful in chamomile tea two or three times a-day in cases of amenorrhoea.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Young, Daniel

The diseases known as menorrhagia, dysmenorrhoea, leucorrhoea, amenorrhoea, abortions, prolapsus, chronic inflammations and ulcerations of the womb, with a yet greater variety of sympathetic nervous disorders, are some of the distressing forms of these derangements.

From Plain Facts for Old and Young by Kellogg, John Harvey

Opposed to amenorrhoea is menorrhagia, or an excessive menstrual flow.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin