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DYSMENORRHEA

Dictionary entry overview: What does dysmenorrhea mean?

• DYSMENORRHEA (noun)
The noun DYSMENORRHEA has 1 sense:

1. painful menstruation

Familiarity information: DYSMENORRHEA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• DYSMENORRHEA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Painful menstruation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("dysmenorrhea" is a kind of...):

hurting; pain (a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dysmenorrhea"):

primary dysmenorrhea (painful menstruation that is intrinsic to menstruation and not the result of a disease)

secondary dysmenorrhea (painful menstruation that is caused by some specific disorder (as endometriosis))

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