postmenstrualadj.
/ˌpəʊs(t)ˈmɛnstrʊəl/, /ˌpəʊs(t)ˈmɛnstrᵿl/, U.S. /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈmɛnstr(əw)əl/, /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈmɛnztr(əw)əl/ 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.
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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).
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