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Definition of Amenorrhea
1. Noun. Absence or suppression of normal menstrual flow.
Generic synonyms: Symptom
Specialized synonyms: Primary Amenorrhea, Secondary Amenorrhea
Derivative terms: Amenorrheal, Amenorrhoeal
Definition of Amenorrhea
1. Noun. (American spelling) (alternative spelling of amenorrhoea) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Amenorrhea
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Amenorrhea
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Amenorrhea
Literary usage of Amenorrhea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Montaigne by Tetel, Marcel (1903)
"amenorrhea. The significance of amenorrhea in phthisical women has been the
subject of a short controversy between AE Neumann and L. Pincus.1 Pincus ..."
2. Practical Organotherapy: The Internal Secretions in General Practice by Henry Robert Harrower (1922)
"ATYPICAL amenorrhea—THYROID ORIGIN Query: "In a case of amenorrhea with retained
menses, the interval varying from one to three, or even four, months, ..."
3. Gynecology by William Phillips Graves (1918)
"ABNORMALITIES OF MENSTRUATION Under menstrual disorders are included amenorrhea,
menorrhagia and metrorrhagia, dysmenorrhea, and vicarious menstruation. ..."
4. Text-book of gynecological diagnosis by Georg Winter, Carl Ruge (1909)
"Definition and Limitations of amenorrhea. — amenorrhea is the absence of menstruation
... In a wider sense the term should embrace all cases of amenorrhea, ..."
5. Viavi hygiene for women, men and children by Hartland Law (1905)
"BSENT menstruation (amenorrhea) is the absence of menstruation be- IT I able during
... We are concerned here with amenorrhea after menstruation has been ..."
6. A Practical treatise on inflammation of the uterus, its cervix, & appendages by James Henry Bennet (1853)
"We understand by the term amenorrhea, the absence, when physiologically due, ...
amenorrhea may be studied under two principal forms : in the first, ..."
7. Manual of Gynecology by Henry Turman Byford (1902)
"Thus menstruation may be absent or diminished in quantity, or painful in character,
giving rise to the terms amenorrhea, menorrhagia and dysmenorrhea. ..."
8. A Textbook of the Diseases of Women by Henry Jacques Garrigues (1894)
"It may be absent (amenorrhea) or scanty; the bleeding may take place from another
part (vicarious menstruation) • it may be painful ..."
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