catamenia

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She worked in a man's sustained way, ignoring all demands for special development, and essaying first to dis-establish, and then to bridle, the catamenia.

From Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls by Clarke, Edward Hammond

Perhaps the venous h�morrhages obey the lunar periods, as the catamenia, and h�morrhoids.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

Dupuytren speaks of denudation of the skin from a burn, with the subsequent development of vicarious catamenia from the seat of the injury.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

She was then sufficiently well-developed, and had a good color; all the functions appeared to act normally, and the catamenia were fairly established.

From Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls by Clarke, Edward Hammond

Of course, menstruation before the third or fourth year is extremely rare, most of the cases reported before this age being merely accidental sanguineous discharges from the genitals, not regularly periodical, and not true catamenia.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)