catamenia
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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
I am assured by some persons of credit, that if they are touched, or even approached, by a woman in her catamenia, they infallibly expire.
From Travels through France and Italy by Smollett, T. (Tobias)
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)
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
The correspondence of the periods of the catamenia with those of the moon was treated of in Sect.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus