menses

1. the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; ; --Hippocrates; --AristotleExamples: "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"Synonyms: catamenia, flow, menses, menstruation, menstruum, period