Definition of "menstrua" []

• A plural of menstruum. (noun)

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• "The next most general consent is that between primary bodies and their supports, that is, their menstrua and foods."
• "See 24, 31 for the statement on women and children as imperfect men: "Videtur autem femina quasi puer siue mas imperfectus et eius menstrua quasi sperma indigestum, sanguineam formam retinens propter debilitatem caloris.""
• "Seneca carries out the correspondence to the point of correlating the perio - dicities of the body — quartain fever, gout, menstrua - tion, the time of gestation — with the overflowing of springs and their dessication."