metrorrhagian.
/ˌmiːtrəˈreɪdʒɪə/, /ˌmɛtrəˈreɪdʒɪə/, U.S. /ˌmitrəˈreɪdʒ(i)ə/, /ˌmɛtrəˈreɪdʒ(i)ə/ Medicine.
Bleeding from the uterus other than that which occurs during normal menstrual periods; an instance of this.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun] > bleeding or flow of blood > from uterus
flood1666
flooding1710
metrorrhagia1857
metrostaxis1886
spotting1891
1786 W. Cullen First Lines Physic (new ed.) III. i. iv. vi. 10 Which discharges alone, are those properly comprehended under the present title [sc. menorrhagia]. The title of Metrorrhagia or haemorrhagia uteri might comprehend a great deal more.
1820 R. Hooper Lexicon-medicum (ed. 4) 557/2 Metrorrhagia, an excessive discharge from the womb.
1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Metrorrhagy.
1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 455 Abdominal pain and metrorrhagia.
1969 Internat. Jrnl. Fertility 14 288 All patients with functional metrorrhagias respond favorably..except when the patient exhibits infectious endometritis or when placental tissue is present.
1976 Lancet 18 Dec. 1334/1 Sixteen otherwise healthy women who were to have elective abdominal hysterectomy for metrorrhagia or cervical cancer..were studied.
1991 G. Greer Change ix. 215 The metrorrhagia of the menopause, though inconvenient, can be easily observed to be a self-limiting phenomenon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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