What's the difference between amenorrhoea and amenorrhoeal?
Amenorrhoea
Definition:
(n.) Retention or suppression of the menstrual discharge.
Example Sentences:
(1) Possible physiological mechanisms causing lactation amenorrhoea are discussed.
(2) This study suggests that the abnormal pituitary hormone secretion in patients with amenorrhoea may in part be caused by an increased dopaminergic activity.
(3) Eleven women with secondary amenorrhoea and hyperprolactinaemia were treated with lisuride, a new semisynthetic ergot derivative.
(4) Hypothalamic-pituitary activity was investigated in 20 women with primary amenorrhoea, in whom gonadal dysgenesis and lower Müllerian duct anomalies had been excluded.
(5) A review of our current knowledge of the mechanism underlying lactation amenorrhoea suggests that there is a causal relationship between high prolactin levels and the absence of ovarian activity.
(6) Eleven women with amenorrhoea after taking oral contraceptives were studied.
(7) Women with lower E2 values, consisting of two groups: WHO I (hypogonadotropic, clomiphen-negative amenorrhoea) and WHO III (hypergonadotropic amenorrhoea).
(8) As to side-effects only amenorrhoea was observed in 92%, spotting in 8%, an increase of body weight (1-6 kg) in 83% of the treated women.
(9) By means of pelvic ultrasonography, a multifollicular ovarian appearance was observed in women with weight-loss-related amenorrhoea.
(10) The clinical, radiological and endocrine findings in thirty-five women with hyperprolactinaemia and amenorrhoea are described.
(11) Menstrual cycle alterations are most likely caused by subtle changes in the episodic secretion pattern of luteinising hormone (LH) as have been found in sedentary women with hypothalamic amenorrhoea as well as in athletes after very demanding training.
(12) Six women with long-standing functional amenorrhoea were treated with 5 microgram of D-Ser (TBU)6 LH-RH-EA twice daily for 14 days.
(13) After a median observation time of 37 months the relapse-free and overall survival times were significantly longer for patients with permanent amenorrhoea.
(14) The results of the ultra low doses of synthetic LH-RH, 1.56, 3.125 and 6.25 mug, are presented in 8 normal women during the first week of the menstrual cycle and 14 patients with secondary amenorrhoea.
(15) The hormone concentrations of 17 amenorrhoeic adolescent girls, with no apparent environmental factor associated with the secondary amenorrhoea, were evaluated.
(16) No significant correlation was found between the androgen level and the degree of hirsutism or the frequency of disturbances of menstruation apart from amenorrhoea.
(17) Patients consult late for this amenorrhoea-galactorrhoea syndrome associated with intracranial hypertension and reductions in the field of vision.
(18) Basal levels of luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) in serum and their response to the luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LH-RH) were measured in a group of patients with functional amenorrhoea.
(19) An 18 year female patient with short stature, amenorrhoea and poorly developed secondary sexual characteristics, has subnormal oestrogen excretion and increased levels of plasma gonadotrophin.
(20) These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that post-oral contraceptive amenorrhoea is the result of continuing suppression of normal hypothalamic pituitary feedback systems after the sex steroids have been stopped.
Amenorrhoeal
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to amenorrhoea.
Example Sentences:
(1) We present the clinical, histological and hormonal data obtained in a premenopausal, amenorrhoeic woman, with a testosterone-producing granulosa cell tumour.
(2) The hormone concentrations of 17 amenorrhoeic adolescent girls, with no apparent environmental factor associated with the secondary amenorrhoea, were evaluated.
(3) During treatment with gonadotrophic hormones in four amenorrhoeic patients there was a tendency towards increasing excretion of methylhistamine (MeHi) followed by a sudden decrease corresponding to changes in the urinary estrogen.
(4) According to the gonadotrophin pattern, the patients could be divided into three groups: in the amenorrhoeic and in 2 normally menstruating women various degrees of suppression of basal and peak levels of luteinising hormone (LH) could be observed; patients with infrequent menstrual periods showed temporarily arrested secretion of gonadotrophins and ovarian steroids; and in polymerrhoea a non-cyclic but high secretion was seen.
(5) Athletes tend to have enhanced calcium status as assessed by bone mineral density, with the notable exception of female amenorrhoeic athletes.
(6) Thirty consecutive amenorrhoeic patients were assessed with regard to the following: medical history, physical examination, pelvic ultrasonography, serum levels of 17-beta oestradiol (E2), other relevant serum hormones and the response to a progesterone challenge test.
(7) The responses were compared with six patients who were amenorrhoeic but had normal serum prolactin levels and absent positive feedback to oestrogen.
(8) After 6 mo of adjuvant chemotherapy the premenopausal patients, 11 of whom had become amenorrhoeic, showed striking reductions in plasma E2 + E1 and A2 and elevations in plasma L.H.
(9) Of 30 amenorrhoeic women athletes, 28 were considered to have hypothalamic amenorrhoea according to their low gonadotropin, estradiol (E2) and normal testosterone and prolactin (PRL) values.
(10) The results show that a relatively simple scheme of classifying amenorrhoeic disorders endocrinologically followed by treatment directed at inducing ovulation allows amenorrhoeic women without primary ovarian failure to achieve conception and delivery rates equal to those in normal women.
(11) During the first 6 months post partum, amenorrhoeic women had low risks of ovulation (below 10%) with partial breastfeeding, and exclusive breastfeeding reduced the risk to 1-5% with either frequent short feeds or infrequent longer feeds.
(12) Among Americans, 80 min of nursing per day, in conjunction with a minimum of six nursing episodes, was highly predictive of remaining amenorrhoeic up to 18 months PP.
(13) In this study we have evaluated the score, sperm migration and ultrastructural characteristics of cervical mucus present in amenorrhoeic women under exclusive breastfeeding at 30, 60, 90, 120, 150 and 180 days post-partum.
(14) Seventeen term pregnancies occurred in 14 amenorrhoeic women with hyperprolactinaemia and radiological evidence of pituitary tumour.
(15) Finally these women, whether they are incontinent or amenorrhoeic, are sterile.
(16) The mode of LH-secretion in a group of functionally amenorrhoic patients was changed by a TRH-induced prolactin increase: the previously observed LH-spikes in these women could no longer be seen.
(17) Twenty five of these athletes were amenorrhoeic, 27 eumenorrhoeic, and 15 were taking the oral contraceptive.
(18) During laparoscopy we performed 132 ovarian punch biopsies in seventy one amenorrhoeic patients.
(19) Results showed highly significant differences in mood profiles among amenorrhoeic athletes, non-amenorrhoeic athletes and inactive women.
(20) The concentrations of luteinizing hormone (LH), follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), prolactin, oestradiol, progesterone, testosterone, androstenedione, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate (DHEAS), and sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) were determined in weekly blood specimens from the amenorrhoeic girls and during one menstrual cycle from the regularly menstruating girls.