menses
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
menses /ˈmɛnsiːz/
▶plural noun
- 1 blood and other matter discharged from the uterus at menstruation.
- 2 [treated as sing.] the time of menstruation.
– origin C16: from L., pl. of mensis ‘month’.
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