"menses" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈmɛn.siːz/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-menses.wav
Etymology: From Latin mēnsis (“month”), the plural being mēnsēs (“months”), corresponding to the monthly courses of women. Compare month. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|mēnsis||month}} Latin mēnsis (“month”) Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} menses pl (plural only)
  1. The discharge of blood mixed with pieces of cellular tissue from the uterus out through the vagina, which occurs roughly every month in uninseminated women; menstrual flow. Tags: plural, plural-only Categories (topical): Menstruation Synonyms: curse [dated, derogatory, slang] Related terms: menarche, menstrual cycle, menstruation Translations (menstrual flow): ἄφεδρος (áphedros) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), менструация (menstruacija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), မီးယပ် (mi:yap) (Burmese), ဥတု (u.tu.) (Burmese), ရာသီ (rasi) (Burmese), 月經 (Chinese Mandarin), 月经 (yuèjīng) (Chinese Mandarin), 經血 (Chinese Mandarin), 经血 (jīngxuè) (Chinese Mandarin), menstruatie [feminine] (Dutch), kuukautisvuoto (Finnish), kuukautiset (Finnish), règles [feminine, plural] (French), menstruations [feminine, plural] (French), menstrues [archaic, feminine, plural] (French), έμμηνα (émmina) [neuter, plural] (Greek), καταμήνια (katamínia) [neuter, plural] (Greek), पुष्प (puṣp) [masculine] (Hindi), रज (raj) [masculine] (Hindi), mestruazioni [feminine] (Italian), 月経血 (gekkeichi) (Japanese), メンス (mensu) (Japanese), menstruum [neuter] (Latin), totorewa (Maori), mate marama (Maori), mōnaþblōd [neuter] (Old English), krwawienie miesięczne [neuter] (Polish), menstruo [masculine] (Spanish), menstruación [feminine] (Spanish)
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.