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Menstrual

Recurring once a month; monthly; gone through in a month; as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place.

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Menstruation 74% connected

The discharge of the menses; also, the state or the period of menstruating.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Menstruation 74% connected

The discharge of the menses; also, the state or the period of menstruating.

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Catamenial 92% connected

Pertaining to the catamenia, or menstrual discharges.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Abib noun · 78% connection

The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was ca…

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Ago a. & adv. · 78% connection

Past; gone by; since; as, ten years ago; gone long ago.

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Autonomasy noun · 78% connection

The use of a word of common or general signification for the name of a particular thing; as, "He has gone to town," for, "He has gone…

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Baroscope noun · 78% connection

Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or foresh…

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Crescent noun · 78% connection

The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the ol…

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December noun · 78% connection

The twelfth and last month of the year, containing thirty-one days. During this month occurs the winter solstice.

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Diurnal adjective · 78% connection

Daily; recurring every day; performed in a day; going through its changes in a day; constituting the measure of a day; as, a diurnal f…

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Eclipse noun · 78% connection

An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either b…

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Elul noun · 78% connection

The sixth month of the Jewish year, by the sacred reckoning, or the twelfth, by the civil reckoning, corresponding nearly to the month…

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Equation noun · 78% connection

An expression of the condition of equality between two algebraic quantities or sets of quantities, the sign = being placed between the…

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Evection unknown · 78% connection

An inequality of the moon's motion is its orbit to the attraction of the sun, by which the equation of the center is diminished at the…

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February noun · 78% connection

The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty…

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Gibbous adjective · 78% connection

Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon.

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Infliximab noun · 78% connection

an anti-TNF compound (trade name Remicade) consisting of an antibody directed against TNF; it is given intravenously at one-month to t…

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Instant adjective · 78% connection

A day of the present or current month; as, the sixth instant; -- an elliptical expression equivalent to the sixth of the month instant…

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Lunation noun · 78% connection

The period of a synodic revolution of the moon, or the time from one new moon to the next; varying in length, at different times, from…

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Lunistice noun · 78% connection

The farthest point of the moon's northing and southing, in its monthly revolution.

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Mansion noun · 78% connection

The place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in its monthly revolution.

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