postˈmenstrual, a. Med.
[post- B. 1 b.]
Occurring after menstruation.
| 1885 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 14 Feb. 342/2 Taking the ‘menstrual period’ as lasting about four days, he marked off on his temperature-charts four days before the ‘show’ as the ‘premenstrual period’, and four days after as the ‘post-menstrual period’. 1901 A. E. Giles Menstruation ii. 17 The metabolic changes may thus be summarised:..in the post-menstrual week, gradual return to the normal condition. 1922 Joyce Ulysses 411 The postmenstrual period. 1948 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. LV. 38 In other regions the endometrium was of the usual postmenstrual type, and was covered with surface epithelium. |