(n. pl.) The catamenial or menstrual discharge, a periodic flow of blood or bloody fluid from the uterus or female generative organs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Extrapolation of gestational age from early crown-rump lengths (CRLs) has been difficult because previously established tables of CRL versus gestational age have contained few measurements at less than seven to eight weeks from the first day of the last menses.
(2) Menses resumed in all 6 women 7 to 41 days after the injection, galactorrhea disappeared in all 4 patients, and libido and potency become normal in both men with microprolactinomas.
(3) All eight girls with menarche before therapy had no further menses.
(4) We obtained blood samples from 88 women 45-58 yr old who were having cyclic menses every 1-2 mth (37 women, 133 samples) or were amenorrheic for greater than 3 mth (51 women, 310 samples).
(5) Women stopped using these 2 methods mainly because of the desire for a future pregnancy, menstrual spotting, and absence of menses.
(6) Users of the minipills often reported irregular menses.
(7) With corticosteroid therapy, the percentage decreased to 2 percent and menses resumed after secondary amenorrhea of two years' duration.
(8) These errors include losses of food on cooking and eating utensils and dishware, losses of feces or urine on toilet paper or in collection containers, and losses through sweat, exfoliated skin, hair and nail growth, saliva, menses, blood sampling, toothbrushing, semen, and, for nitrogen, from flatus and respiration.
(9) During both menses and the premenstrual week of the low fat dietary period there were significant decreases in self-reported symptoms associated with water retention.
(10) It has been used traditionally to treat bronchitis and to induce abortion and menses, but was only recognized as a male antifertility agent in the 1970s.
(11) Studies on the mechanism of action of Mifepristone as a luteolytic have shown that menses will occur even if exogenous hCG is given to sustain progesterone levels.
(12) After 8 months, she continued to experience normal menses.
(13) The complement of protected time--viz., "ovulatory age," the period between menarche and diagnosis of ovarian cancer (or cessation of menses) minus "protected time"--was strongly related to risk of ovarian cancer.
(14) The midluteal phase, characterized by high levels of estradiol and progesterone, was associated with improved performance on tests of speeded motor coordination and impaired performance on a perceptual-spatial test, relative to performance during menses.
(15) Mean CA-125 levels were significantly increased in both groups during menses.
(16) We conclude that inconsistent findings on the effect of menopausal status in the association of breast cancer with some reproductive factors are partly due to statistical imprecision and differential misclassification bias associated with different age-based or menses-based definitions of menopause.
(17) The magnitude of the variation was not affected by whether the biopsy specimen was obtained in the mid or late luteal phase, the degree of lag between the dating and subsequent menses, or the presence of an LPD.
(18) On day 5 after the onset of induced menses, all women had baseline blood samples obtained at 10-minute intervals for 4 hours.
(19) A 13-year-old girl with signs and symptoms of an acute abdomen was found to have uterus didelphys, unilateral hematocolpos, ipsilateral renal agenesis and menses.
(20) 24 women received 400 mg of RU 486 and the remaining 115 women received 600 mg on the day before the expected menses.
Metrorrhagia
Definition:
(n.) Profuse bleeding from the womb, esp. such as does not occur at the menstrual period.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hysterography and hysteroscopy have been compared in the diagnosis of endouterine benign pathology, in a group of 50 patients, complaining meno-metrorrhagia, sterility, infertility or amenorrhea.
(2) The most frequent clinical diagnosis was metrorrhagia dysfunctionalis (in 55 patients).
(3) It was considered unwise to treat amenorrhea with combined estrogens and progestagens because metrorrhagia ensued.
(4) The symptoms include metrorrhagia, leukorrhea, abdominal pain, singly or in combination.
(5) Results showed that after 2 years of use, the plain T device had a significantly lower rate of metrorrhagia than had been reported for any other contraceptive device.
(6) The contact hysteroscopy is considered as a valuable additional method for examination of women with metrorrhagia.
(7) Risk factors (obesity, hypertension, diabetes mellitus) for endometrial cancer were found in 38% of MB and in 20% of climacteric metrorrhagia.
(8) Positive direct-specimen fluorescein-conjugated monoclonal antibody test for C trachomatis results were associated with a past history of chlamydial infection, multiple sexual partners, sexual contact with men with urethritis, nonuse of condoms, metrorrhagia, exocervicitis, mucopurulent endocervical discharge, abnormal cervical cytologic features, and isolation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae from the endocervix.
(9) The tumors were bulky polypoid masses producing metrorrhagia.
(10) Physiquens is also a perfect regulatory device of the cycle in the case of menorrhagia, metrorrhagia and irregular menstrual cycles connected with a hormonal insufficiency.
(11) Removal was prompted by acne, metrorrhagia, two or more medical complaints, menorrhagia, physical pain, tenderness at insertion site and spotting.
(12) Exploration of the blood residue from 30 senegalese women suffering from functional metrorrhagia led to hemostasis disruption, essentially connected with endogenous passage coagulation factors, being noted in 20% of the cases.
(13) Therapy produced amenorrhea or oligomenorrhea in 21 patients (84%) and 7 cases of chronic metrorrhagia were successfully controlled.
(14) Pain and metrorrhagia in women using IUDs are often the reason for removing the IUD.
(15) Metrorrhagia in its several forms has also been treated by oral contraceptives with some success.
(16) In 9 cases, the histological diagnosis was endometrial cancer (clinical indications: 5 PMB, 3 climacteric metrorrhagia, 1 recurrent preclimacteric metrorrhagia).
(17) Menstrual bleeding disorders were the most frequent reasons for discontinuing subcutaneous implant use and occurred more often among the levo-norgestrel patients (generally metrorrhagia and menorrhagia).
(18) The study group consisted of 40 IUD-wearing women, aged 26-46 years, suffering from metrorrhagia.
(19) Hysterectomy was carried out in 22 cases because of recurrence of metrorrhagia.
(20) Authors working in the department of gynaecology and obstetrics in the university hospital of Caen with non-pregnant, non-menopausal women who were followed-up for at least 2 years after curettage have been able to carry out a retrospective study of 102 curettage and biopsies carried out either for diagnosis or to lessen bleeding in cases of metrorrhagia, menorrhagia or menometrorrhagia.