单词 | postmenstrual |
释义 | postmenstrualadj. Medicine. Occurring or existing after menstruation. Later also: designating the age of a fetus or infant as reckoned from the first day of the mother's last menstrual period before pregnancy. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive cycle > [adjective] > menstrual cycle postmenstrual1864 premenstrual1864 anovulatory1934 anovular1938 mid-cycle1951 overdue1960 paramenstrual1968 1864 Lancet 10 Dec. 656/2 Although the true fits..were principally confined to the pre-menstrual or post-menstrual epochs, yet they occasionally followed coition. 1872 R. Ludlam Lect. Clin. & Didactic Dis. Women xxxiii. 567 Post-menstrual haemorrhage. 1901 A. E. Giles Menstruation ii. 17 The metabolic changes may thus be summarised:..in the post-menstrual week, gradual return to the normal condition. 1948 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. 55 38 In other regions the endometrium was of the usual postmenstrual type, and was covered with surface epithelium. 1975 Ann. Human Biol. 2 325 It is..unlikely that variations of foetal size at any given post-menstrual age are wholly attributable to unavoidable errors in the estimation of ‘true’ gestational age. 2002 A. Pearson I don't know how she does It (2003) xv. 146 God Kate, I look back to your pre-menstrual tension with nostalgia. These days, we have post-menstrual tension, inter-menstrual tension. We have 24–7 tension. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1864 |
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