menses

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"Discrepancies in the incidence of who gets migraine attacks associated with menses is likely due to premenopausal women having more regular menstrual cycles and thus more menstrual-related migraines," says Ailani.

From Science Daily • Apr. 12, 2024

Anytime before the “quickening”—the time in pregnancy around 16-18 weeks when women can feel the fetus moving within them— women could ingest herbs or teas to try to get their menses to restart.

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2022

Just like the reason she started taking birth control: to help mitigate severe cramps and heavy bleeding that accompanied her menses.

From Washington Post • Jun. 10, 2022

A doctor researching mifepristone in the 1980s said the drug would prove useful “as a menses inducer for women who are late with their periods.”

From Slate • May 13, 2022

I know that after the ovaries have been transplanted into women who have none their menses return on a 4-day period regularly.

From The Goat-gland Transplantation As Originated and Successfully Performed by J. R. Brinkley, M. D., of Milford, Kansas, U. S. A., in Over 600 Operations Upon Men and Women by Flower, Sydney Blanshard