To discharge the menses; to have the catamenial flow.
The catamenialor menstrual discharge, a periodic flow of blood or bloody fluid from the uterus or female generative organs.
It chiefly occurs in females of nervous temperament at the catamenial periods.
In women catamenial irregularity and dysuria are generally associated with constipation.
The older authors quoted several such instances, and Mehliss says that in the ancient days certain writers remarked that catamenial lustration from the penis was inflicted on the Jews as a divine punishment.
Frommann mentions a man who said he saw a tree in Goa which withered because a catamenial napkin was hung on it.
Her husband died when thirty-six years old, and ever since the catamenial flow had shown itself with great regularity.
Defn: To discharge the menses; to have the catamenial flow.
Defn: The catamenial or menstrual discharge, a periodic flow of blood or bloody fluid from the uterus or female generative organs.
I believe them to prove that generally girls here are doing very well as to the catamenial function.
There is an established kind of tradition giving the rule for the regimen during the catamenial period: this regimen goes from mother to daughter, and the advice of physicians is seldom asked for with regard to it.
Just at this time, however, the catamenialfunction began to show signs of failure of power.
The principle or condition peculiar to the female sex is the management of the catamenial function, which, from the age of fourteen to nineteen, includes the building of the reproductive apparatus.
While a student, she wrought continuously,--just as much during each catamenial week as at other times.
The second is the traditional motherly supervision and careful regimen of the catamenial week.
The catamenial function first showed signs of activity in her Sophomore Year, when she was fifteen years old.
Nature has reserved the catamenial week for the process of ovulation, and for the development and perfectation of the reproductive system.
The catamenial function appeared normally, and, with the exception of occasional slight attacks of menorrhagia, was normally performed during the whole period of her education.
James Oliver believes that the catamenial flow eliminates from the body substances whose presence in the blood would exert a deleterious influence on the animal economy.
The gradual accumulation of this irritation finally caused a reflex action which determined an afflux of blood to the uterus and ovaries, which constitutes the catamenial flow.
Giving four different sorts of grain for five years to a Brahman, to atone for the sin of the catamenial discharge.
The following ceremonies are often performed after the cessation of the catamenial discharge, to atone for the sin contracted by their occurrence:-- Annamumuttani Adivaram.
To atone for the sin of the catamenial discharge, food is eaten without salt on the second day after every new moon.
Indeed, we find among the primitive customs of ancient Africans a special observance of the commencement of the catamenial period.
After this she had the regular returns of the catamenial period, until the full time had expired; during suckling she was free from the discharge.
The least chill or nervousness, I must say, upsets her in this way; and she was subject to the same the last two catamenial periods.
But after this she suffered for a couple of months from a very peculiar discharge after the catamenial flux.
The sequestration as 'unclean,' of women during their catamenial period, as practiced in olden times, had the same tendency.
It is undoubtedly the fact that meat will be tainted if cured by women at the catamenial period.
It is probably the influence of these primitive ideas which has caused surgeons and gynæcologists to dread operations during the catamenial period.
