Associations to the word «Menstruum»
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Wiktionary
MENSTRUUM, noun. Any solvent used for extracting medicinal compounds from plants etc.
Dictionary definition
MENSTRUUM, noun. (archaic) a solvent.
MENSTRUUM, 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.
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