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Catamenia

Definition: Catamenia

Catamenia

Noun

1. 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.

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

Synonyms: Catamenia

Synonyms: flow (n), menses (n), menstruation (n), period (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Catamenia

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Regularity of recurrence Periodicity

Catamenia; courses, menses, menstrual flux.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Catamenia

English words defined with "catamenia": flowmenses, menstruationperiod. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Catamenia

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

  catamenia

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: Catamenia

Derivations

Words beginning with "catamenia": catamenial. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Catamenia

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-e-i-m-n-t"

-2 letters: amanita, amentia, anaemia, anaemic, animate, nematic.

-3 letters: acetin, anemia, anemic, ataman, caiman, catena, centai, cinema, enatic, etamin, iceman, inmate, maniac, mantic, taenia, tamein.

-4 letters: aceta, actin, aecia, amain, ament, amice, amine, amnia, amnic, anima, anime, antae, antic, atman, enact, entia, manat, mania, manic, manta, matin, meant, menta, minae, mince, tenia, tinea.

-5 letters: acme, acne.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-e-i-m-n-t"
 

+1 letter: catamenial.

 

+2 letters: analemmatic.

 

+3 letters: antiacademic, paramagnetic.

 

+4 letters: antiacademics, galactosamine, mathematician.

 

+5 letters: galactosamines, mathematicians, sacramentalism, sacramentalist.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Catamenia


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

43 61 74 61 6D 65 6E 69 61

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)

-.-.    .-    -    .-    --    .    -.    ..    .-

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

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

01000011 01100001 01110100 01100001 01101101 01100101 01101110 01101001 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#116 &#97 &#109 &#101 &#110 &#105 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0074 0061 006D 0065 006E 0069 0061

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

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

376786677971807567

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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