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Premenstrual

Definition: Premenstrual

Premenstrual

Adjective

1. Of or relating to or occurring during the period just before menstruation.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Premenstrual

DomainDefinition

Health

Occurring before menstruation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Premenstrual

English words defined with "premenstrual": adenomyosisendometriosis. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Premenstrual

DomainTitle

Books

  • Dr. Susan Lark's Premenstrual Syndrome Self-Help Book: A Woman's Guide to Feeling Good All Month (reference)

  • PMS: Women Tell Women How to Control Premenstrual Syndrome (reference)

  • Premenstrual Dysphorias: Myths and Realities (reference)

  • Premenstrual Syndrome (Perspectives on Physical Health) (reference)

  • Self-Help for Premenstrual Syndrome (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Premenstrual

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

The addition of progesterone could lead to irritability and mood changes almost like PMS, premenstrual syndrome, which troubles some young premenopausal women. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Premenstrual

"Premenstrual" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 88.46% of the time. "Premenstrual" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)88.46%2372,767
Noun (proper)11.54%3202,518
                    Total100.00%26N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Premenstrual

Expressions using "premenstrual": Premenstrual Stress Syndrome premenstrual syndrome premenstrual tension Premenstrual Tension Syndrome. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Premenstrual

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

premenstrual syndrome

240

disorder dysmorphic premenstrual

3

premenstrual dysphoric disorder

64

premenstrual headache

3

premenstrual symptom

25

chart premenstrual

3

premenstrual

23

bleeding premenstrual

3

premenstrual spotting

22

calendar experience premenstrual

2

premenstrual syndrome symptom

10

premenstrual dysphoric syndrome

2

acne premenstrual

7

premenstrual dysphoria

2

premenstrual cramp

6

premenstrual syndrome treatment

2

premenstrual tension

5

cause premenstrual syndrome

2

premenstrual disorder

4

gain premenstrual weight

2

pms premenstrual syndrome

4

disorder dysphoric pmdd premenstrual

2

premenstrual cycle

4

premenstrual bloating

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Premenstrual

Language Translations for "premenstrual"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

præmenstruel, præmenstruel. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

premenstrueel. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

premenstruaalinen, kuukautisia edeltävä. (various references)

   

French

  

prémenstruel, prémenstruel. (various references)

   

German

  

prämenstruell, prämenstruell. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

προεμμηνορροϊκός. (various references)

   

Italian

  

premestruale. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

月経前 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

'っけいまえ. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

emenstrualpray

   

Portuguese

  

pré-menstrual. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

предменструальный. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

premenstrual. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Premenstrual

Derivations

Words beginning with "premenstrual": premenstrually. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Premenstrual" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: prementstrual. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Premenstrual

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-m-n-p-r-r-s-t-u"

-1 letter: superaltern.

-2 letters: enraptures, prelatures, prematures.

-3 letters: apertures, enrapture, lamenters, menstrual, murrelets, numerates, palterers, plasterer, prelature, premature, renatures, replaster, saunterer, supermale, superreal, tamperers, tramplers.

-4 letters: alterers, amputees, aperture, austerer, empalers, empanels, emplanes, emulates, ensample, epaulets, erumpent, eternals, lamenter, learners, manurers, measurer, menstrua, mensural, muenster, murrelet, neutrals, numerals, numerate, palterer, partners, pasturer, pearlers, permeant, permutes, petrales.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-m-n-p-r-r-s-t-u"
 

+2 letters: premenstrually.

 

+4 letters: supernormalities.

 

+5 letters: superconglomerate.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Premenstrual


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 72 65 6D 65 6E 73 74 72 75 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01110010 01100101 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110011 01110100 01110010 01110101 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0072 0065 006D 0065 006E 0073 0074 0072 0075 0061 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

508471797180858684876778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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