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語源

From menstruum +‎ -ation, modelled after Late Latin menstruatio. The word is a cognate with French menstruation, Spanish menstruación, which displaced 古期英語 mōnaþblōd (literally “monthblood”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌmɛnstɹuːˈeɪʃən/, /ˌmɛnstɹʊˈeɪʃən/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌmɛnstɹuˈeɪʃən/, /-stɹəˈweɪ-/, /ˌmɛnˈstɹeɪʃən/ (the latter pronunciation leading to the spelling menstration)
• 韻: -eɪʃən
• ハイフネーション: men‧stru‧a‧tion

名詞

menstruation (countable and uncountable, plural menstruations)

1. The periodic discharging of the menses, the flow of blood and cells from the lining of the uterus in unfertilized females of humans and other primates.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 267:

     It would seem that in Avebury, Stonehenge, and Malta the mystery cult of menstruation/mensuration reached its most consummate development.

   • 2002, Annie Potts, “Innerspace”, in The Science/Fiction of Sex: Feminist Deconstruction and the Vocabulares of Heterosex, Hove, East Sussex; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part 2 (The Vocabularies of Heterosex), page 180:

     [T]he release of semen from the penis predominantly symbolizes a forceful masculine operation, an orgasmic ‘rush’ – ejaculate refers to a sudden happening, an ejection – while the ‘loss’ of blood during menstruation is viewed as a more or less passive occurrence. Even the metaphors employed to depict these two aspects of corporeality serve to situate them on differently gendered poles. Man ‘spoofs off’ or ‘shoots his load’, while woman ‘gets her visitor’, ‘has got her monthly’.

2. An instance of menstruation, the part of each month during which a fertile woman menstruates.

別の表記

• menstration (nonstandard, possibly proscribed)

同意語

• See Thesaurus:menstruation.

派生語

関連する語

参考

• PMT
• tampon
• sanitary towel

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