the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to
(archaic) a solvent
the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause