Associations to the word «Catamenia»

Wiktionary

CATAMENIA, noun. The female period, menstrual discharge.
CATAMENIA, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Thraupidae.

Dictionary definition

CATAMENIA, noun. 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.

Wise words

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Friedrich Nietzsche