chiefly Scotland
menseless adjective chiefly Scotland

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Your hormones may also have started cycling, which will onset menses again. Christin Perry, Parents, 26 June 2024 And dying young, of course, is another surefire way to avoid racking up an excessive number of lifetime menses. Laura Kolbe, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024 However, this can also depend on your menstrual cycle because while most people ovulate 10 to 14 days before their menses, some are irregular. Sarah Bradley, Parents, 30 Mar. 2024 Using hormonal contraception to limit the number of lifetime menses does pose other risks: most forms of the Pill slightly increase the risk of breast and cervical cancers while slightly lowering the risk of ovarian, endometrial, and colon cancers, according to most observational studies. Laura Kolbe, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024 Even so, menses, months and the moon could share more than etymological roots. Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023 Females who don't show signs of breast development by age 13 and/or don't have their first menses by age 15 or 16 are considered delayed in puberty. Maria Carter, Parents, 5 July 2023 Menstruation is also known as the menstrual period, menses, or a periods. Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 14 Mar. 2023

Word History

Etymology

Middle English menske honor, from Old Norse mennska humanity; akin to Old English man

First Known Use

circa 1500, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of mense was circa 1500

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“Mense.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mense. Accessed 5 Dec. 2024.

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