What is "amenorrhea"

Usage examples of "amenorrhea".

Favorite Prescription, will generally prove successful in cases of amenorrhea resulting from plethora.

Duchesne mentions an instance of complete amenorrhea, in which the ordinary flow was replaced by periodic sweats.

At the time of report, four years after, she was free from pain and amenorrhea, and her flow was regular, though scant.

Recently, in cases of dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea dysmenorrhagia, and like sexual disorders, massage or gentle flagellation of the parts contiguous with the genitalia and pelvic viscera has been recommended.

It may be only a symptom of some disease, in which case the amenorrhea will disappear when the disease is cured.

But the most commonly occurring and possibly most severe attacks of amenorrhea, however, usually come on suddenly.

In amenorrhea appearing under such circumstances, pain in the stomach and bowels, sometimes with nausea and headache also accompany the menstrual trouble.

The hygienic treatment of this form of amenorrhea, then, consists in physical culture, regular bathing, and the regulation of the bowels, if constipated, as suggested in this volume under the head of constipation.

The differential diagnosis of amenorrhea, particularly in young girls, must consider nervousness as a strong etiologic possibility.

In practice, nomadic hunter-gatherers space their children about four years apart by means of lactational amenorrhea, sexual abstinence, infanticide, and abortion.