catamenia

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The other did not marry, and although not a dwarf, was under-sized; she had her catamenia every third week.

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

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

Her catamenia were very scant, but this was attributed to her change of life.

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

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)