Definition of Premenstrual

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or occurring during the period just before menstruation.

Partainyms: Menstruation

Definition of Premenstrual

1. Adjective. Occurring in the time period during the menstrual cycle leading up to the beginning of menstruation. ¹

2. Adjective. Relating to the time period in a girl's life prior to her first experience of menstruation; prepubescent. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Premenstrual

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Premenstrual

premeditating
premeditation
premeditations
premeditative
premeditatively
premeditator
premeditators
premeds
premeet
premeeting
premeiotic
premelted
premelting
premen
premenopausal
premerger
premerit
premerited
premeriting
premerits
premessianic
premethylated
premetric
premia
premices
premie

Literary usage of Premenstrual

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children (1916)
"... size with nuclear irregularity, and the irregular convoluted and distorted gland forms (far more marked than the premenstrual physiological changes). ..."

2. Gynæcology for Students & Practitioners by Thomas Watts Eden (1920)
"NORMAL ENDOMETRIUM (premenstrual PHASE). Stained by Mallory's polychrome méthylène blue. The basement-membrane of the gland-epithelium is stained deep blue ..."

3. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1915)
"In practically every case we find a thickened, velvety mucosa, which histológica! ly bears a resemblance to the premenstrual phase in the normal menstrual ..."

4. On the use of the cold pack followed by massage in the treatment of anaemia by Mary Putnam Jacobi, Victoria A. White (1880)
"... when the patient was feeling remarkably well, the amount of urea and also of inorganic material during the premenstrual week was increased. ..."

5. The Ductless Glandular Diseases by Wilhelm Falta (1916)
"In the premenstrual period the ery- throcyte count may lie 1 to 1)2 millions ... Moreover in the premenstrual period there is found a higher level of bodily ..."

6. The Ductless Glandular Diseases by Wilhelm Falta (1915)
"In the premenstrual period the erythrocyte count may lie i to \}/% millions ... Moreover in the premenstrual period there is found a higher level of bodily ..."

7. The Glands Regulating Personality: A Study of the Glands of Internal by Louis Berman (1921)
"Indeed, the premenstrual period furnishes a direct clue to the dominating ... Moreover, these premenstrual phenomena are the shadows cast by coming events. ..."

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