menses

menses \mɑ̃s\ féminin

1. Pluriel de mense.

Du latin mensis (« mois »).

menses \Prononciation ?\

1. (Médecine) Règles, menstrues.
   • In answering that her menses were regular and that she was not pregnant, Mrs. Payne acted in good faith, believing such answers to be true. — (Supreme Court of Texas, The Texas Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, volume 101, p. 453. Gammel-Statesman publishing Company, 1909.)
   • Generally women in all castes, at least women 50 years old and younger, bathed and then cooked during their menses, and in some cases had sexual intercourse with their husbands. — (Ruth S. Freed & Stanley A. Freed, « Rites of passage in Shanti Nagar », chapitre « Marriage », sous-chapitre « Age at Wedding and Attitudes Toward Females », p. 408 [p. 90 dans le document PDF]. American Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. 56, n° 3, 1980.)
   • If women did not mention it themselves, I also asked whether they could have sexual intercourse during their menses, to which all stated that no, they could not. — (Denise Roth Allen, Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk : Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania, chapitre 7 (« Risk and Tradition »), p. 130. University of Michigan Press, 2002 [première éd.].)

• menstruation
• menstrual cycle
• menarche
• periods

menses \Prononciation ?\

1. Nominatif pluriel de mensis.
2. Vocatif pluriel de mensis.
3. Accusatif pluriel de mensis.