noun
mass nounAbnormal bleeding from the uterus.
‘Potential causes for excessive uterine bleeding during menstruation or metrorrhagia (ie, intermenstrual bleeding) may include hyperplasia or adenocarcinoma.’- ‘They are used for perspiration caused by weakness, chronic cough, chronic diarrhea, spermatorrhea, enuresis, frequent urination, chronic leucorrhea, metrorrhagia, etc.’
- ‘The patient's past medical history was significant for metrorrhagia in 1998.’
- ‘Transient metrorrhagia was reported in five women taking spironolactone.’
- ‘Salvia breaks up stagnated Blood, produces new Blood, calms the fetus, facilitates the removal of a dead fetus, stops metrorrhagia and leukorrhea and regulates channels.’
Origin
Late 18th century modern Latin, from Greek mētra ‘womb’ + -rrhag-, stem of rhēgnunai ‘to burst’.
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