menstruum
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menstruum
n. substance which dissolves, solvent

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Menstrual cycle
The menstrual cycle is the scientific term for the physiological changes that can occur in fertile women for the purposes of sexual reproduction and fertilization. This article focuses on the human menstrual cycle.

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menstruum

Noun
1. (archaic) a solvent
(hypernym) solvent, dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent
(classification) archaism, archaicism
2. the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates; "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"--Aristotle
(synonym) menstruation, menses, catamenia, period, flow
(hypernym) discharge, emission, expelling
(hyponym) menorrhagia, hypermenorrhea


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menstruum
nm. menstruum, substance which dissolves

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Menstruum
(n.)
Any substance which dissolves a solid body; a solvent.
  

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