postˈmenstruum Med.
[mod.L.: see post- B. 1 c and menstruum.]
The stage of the menstrual cycle which follows menstruation.
| 1910 Trans. N.Y. Obstetr. Soc. 1909–11 229 They [sc. Hitchmann and Adler] divide the monthly cycle into four phases. The first phase, the postmenstruum, corresponds to the picture of the normal endometrium of our text-books. The glands are small and regular, round in cross-section. 1933 Amer. Jrnl. Anat. LII. 564 Jaeger..and Blumenfeld..found conception most frequent in postmenstruum (63·6 per cent up to the fourteenth day). 1964 K. Dalton Premenstrual Syndrome iv. 23 Symptoms limited to the postmenstruum are extremely rare. |