Definition of "metrorrhagia" []

• Bleeding from the uterus that is not associated with menstruation. (noun)

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• "If Mrs. Pepys's menstrual cycle occurred irregularly as stated in the third sentence of her husband's diary [Matthew Hodgart's review of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, NYR, October 8], she would be suffering from metrorrhagia not dysmenorrhea which implies painful menstruation."
• "When the menstruation is very profuse, resembling more a hemorrhage than normal menstruation, it is called _menorrhagia_; if the hemorrhage from the uterus occurs out of the regular menstrual periods, it is called _metrorrhagia_."
• "He seems to have been the first one to suggest that in metrorrhagia, with severe hemorrhage from the uterus, the bleeding might be stopped by putting ligatures around the limbs."