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Definition of Primary amenorrhea
1. Noun. Delay of menarche beyond age 18.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Primary Amenorrhea
Literary usage of Primary amenorrhea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical Gynecology by Howard Atwood Kelly (1912)
"In addition to these two distinct classes of primary amenorrhea, every physician
is familiar with cases where absence of menstruation at the usual age is ..."
2. Therapeutic Gazette (1901)
"30, 1901) observes that delayed menstruation is primary amenorrhea in a patient
of eighteen to twenty-five, whose pelvic organs are normal or only slightly ..."
3. Gynecological Diagnosis by Walter Lincoln Burrage (1910)
"to flow), may be classified as follows:—(1) primary amenorrhea, ... primary amenorrhea
is due to (a) failure of growth of the uterine organs, ..."
4. A Text-book of Gynecology by William Sisson Gardner (1912)
"A primary amenorrhea is one in which the menses have never become established.
... In primary amenorrhea, as a rule, the menses never appear; ..."
5. Manual of Gynecology by Henry Turman Byford (1902)
"Definition. Classification or causes. The term primary amenorrhea is used for
cases in which the menses have never become properly established, ..."
6. Gynecological Operations: Including Non-operative Treatment and Minor Gynecology by Henri Albert Charles Antoine Hartmann, Douglas William Sibbald (1913)
"In presence of a primary amenorrhea the first point is to discover if the amenorrhea
is due to an arrest of development or menstrual retention. ..."
7. The Practitioner's guide to the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of women by Gustavus Maximilian Blech (1903)
"Defective development of the ovaries or uterus make this function impossible and
in such cases we speak of primary amenorrhea, primary meaning that ..."
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