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menstruation

[men-stroo-ey-shuhn, -strey-] / ˌmɛn struˈeɪ ʃən, -ˈstreɪ- /


NOUN
monthly women's state
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Education officials say it's a matter for individual schools to consider issues like behaviour, safeguarding and their duties to pupils' individual needs - including "those arising from menstruation or medical conditions".

From BBC May 16, 2026

A humiliating incident in a pool surrounded by her repulsed classmates echoes an iconic scene from “Carrie,” with Ducournau crafting an analogy for traumatic adolescent rites of passage like menstruation.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 26, 2026

From menstruation mishaps to a meditation on old age, and the challenges faced by Arab-Israelis in the aftermath of the Hamas attacks, one Oscars category is nothing if not varied.

From Barron's Mar. 4, 2026

Early onset of menstruation, late menopause, or not having children also increase risk.

From Science Daily Jan. 20, 2026

The only encouraging event was the reappearance of Masvita’s menstruation.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Such a suggestion inevitably leads to a series of more profuse menstruations during the following months.

From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

If the secondary anemia from this is not overcome during the interval profuse menstruations may succeed each other for many months.

From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh



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