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Menstruum

noun
(pl. E. menstruums, L. menstrua)
1.
(archaic) a solvent.
2.
The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause.  Synonyms: catamenia, flow, menses, menstruation, period.  "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"





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"Menstruum" Quotes from Famous Books



... ulterior discoveries may enable it to accomplish. However profuse these constructors of the mind may have been in the accumulation of its component faculties, they appear to have little regarded language, its most prominent and important feature; the universal menstruum of intelligence, and accredited currency for the circulation and exchange of thought. There are two faculties or capacities that are peculiar to the human intellect, by which our species has attained a supremacy that leaves all other animated beings in a distant rear: the possession ...
— On the Nature of Thought - or, The act of thinking and its connexion with a perspicuous sentence • John Haslam


Words linked to "Menstruum" :   hypermenorrhea, catamenia, archaicism, resolvent, emission, dissolving agent, archaism, expelling, dissolvent, menorrhagia, oligomenorrhea, period, menses, solvent, flow, dissolver, discharge


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