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

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

Nonetheless, women continued to restore their menses with home treatments and induced early abortions before quickening as permitted by common law.

From Slate • Jun. 1, 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

They did not have children, and when their wives had their menses, they were sick in the abdomen.

From Kankanay Ceremonies (American Archaeology and Ethnology) by Moss, C. R.