She had been a widow for twenty years, and had ceased to menstruate nearly ten years before.
She had ceased to menstruate at forty and had borne a child at twenty-seven.
Ysabel, a young slave girl belonging to Don Carlos Pedro of Havana, began to menstruate soon after birth, and at the first year was regular in this function.
Woodruff describes a child who began to menstruateat two years of age and continued regularly thereafter.
At forty she ceased to menstruateand soon became afflicted with organic heart diseases.
Guepin has an example in a case of a girl of eighteen, who commenced to menstruate when three years old.
He also speaks of a mulatto girl, born in 1848, who began to menstruate at eleven years and nine months, and gave birth to a female child before she reached thirteen, and bore a second child when fourteen years and seven months old.
The daughters of mothers who menstruated early, themselves menstruate early.
Bettina may have too much post-pituitary, and so will menstruate early, tend to be short, blush easily, be sentimentally suggestive and sexually accessible.
The average age is fourteen years, though there is no reason to worry if a girl does not menstruate for a number of years later.
A strong, robust, full-blooded girl will menstruate at an earlier age, than will a sickly anemic girl.
In my own opinion there is no doubt but that some females really do menstruate while pregnant.
She still continued to menstruate for three months after, but in six weeks from her last period was safely delivered, without assistance, of a very fine living child.
She was of medium size, rather tall and slender, but well developed, and began to menstruate at the age of ten.
It may be noted that most observers find that very early pregnancies occur in women who begin to menstruate at an unusually early age, that is, some years before the early pregnancy occurs.
It was stated by Velpeau that Lapland and Greenland women usually only menstruate every three months, or even only two or three times during the year.
She did not menstruate after her sister’s death.
Four months before admission, the patient did not menstruate but was said not to have worried about this.
On the other hand, most women in stupor fail to menstruate during the bulk of the psychosis at a time when we believe emotions to be absent or greatly reduced in their intensity.
She began to menstruate at 14, and it was claimed that she then wakened up a little.
As a rule, a woman who commences to menstruate at an early age continues to do so until a late age, while with a woman who commences to menstruate late, the change comes early.
The average age at which menstruation first appears is fourteen, but some girls menstruate as early as eleven, while others may not develop till some years later.
The consumptive girl did not menstruate because she had not the vitality to do so.
A girl who began to menstruate when at the age of nine years, became pregnant very shortly afterwards (d'Outreport).
Obviously, these two notions are very different; for instance, a girl of thirteen who has begun to menstruate may be competent for the act of procreation, and yet her sexual development may still be far from complete.
Carus reports the case of a woman whose medical history showed that she had begun to menstruateat the age of two years, and that she became pregnant for the first time when eight years old.
A girl began to menstruate at the age of two, had a growth of hair on the pubes and developed mammæ at the age of three, and became pregnant at the age of eight (Carus).
Even a woman who did not menstruatewas believed by the Baganda to be a source of danger to her husband, indeed capable of killing him.
For a like reason, probably, the Baganda imagine that a woman who does not menstruate exerts a malign influence on gardens and makes them barren(71) if she works in them.
Among the Akikuyu of British East Africa, if a new hut is built in a village and the wife chances to menstruate in it on the day she lights the first fire there, the hut must be broken down and demolished the very next day.
Occasionally, women menstruate during the entire time of gestation.
Some ladies, though comparatively few, menstruate during nursing; when they do, it may be considered not as the rule, but as the exception.
The cases are rare of pregnancy taking place where menstruation has never occurred, yet it frequently happens that women never menstruate from one pregnancy to another.
And when the woman is on the point of ceasing to menstruate she does not do so smoothly and comfortably.
The Italian, Hebrew, Spanish, or French girl is apt to menstruate earlier than the English, German, or Swedish girl.
For a like reason, probably, the Baganda imagine that a woman who does not menstruate exerts a malign influence on gardens and makes them barren[71] if she works in them.
Then there is another class of cases, where girls menstruate before they are old enough, and without their bodies showing any visible evidence of developed womanhood, who belong to the most obstinate cases for successful treatment.
Children who are pampered and who are nurtured in ease and luxury menstruate earlier than those of the poor or even of the middle class, who are brought up in habits of industry.
These girls menstruate not so young as their older sisters, but begin about at the same age as those who are born in the colder climate.
The diversity in the ages at which children menstruate in different countries cannot be laid to any constitutional peculiarities of the races.
It does not follow as a rule that because a woman began tomenstruate quite young, the change of life will take place earlier.
Girls of a scrofulous taint or other hereditary habits of constitution, often begin to menstruate prematurely; outdoor exercise and cod liver oil with cold sponging on retiring at night are the proper resources for building them up.
The temperament also greatly influences the development of the function; children who are nervous, irritable, and of a sanguineous temperament, menstruate earlier than those of sedate habits.
It has been observed that the dark-complexioned girls menstruate sooner under similar conditions than the blondes.
Under ideal circumstances the mother does not menstruate while she nurses her infant; whereas, if the breasts are not in use, the menstrual function returns six to eight weeks after delivery.
One-third of nursing mothers, statistics indicate, begin to menstruate about two months after delivery, and month by month the proportion gradually increases.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "menstruate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
