catamenia
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Has not your lady, may I ask, heretofore at the period of the catamenia, suffered, if indeed not from anaemia, then necessarily from plethora?
From Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft
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)
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
Thus it is known who have their catamenia and who have not.
From Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 03 by Otis, Charles P. (Charles Pomeroy)
In place of catamenia there was a discharge reddish-green in color.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)