AMENORRHEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amenorrhea mean? 

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

1. absence or suppression of normal menstrual flow

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMENORRHEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Absence or suppression of normal menstrual flow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

amenia; amenorrhea; amenorrhoea

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

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

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

primary amenorrhea (delay of menarche beyond age 18)

secondary amenorrhea (cessation of menstruation in a woman who had previously menstruated)

Derivation:

amenorrheal (related to the suppression of normal menstrual flow for any reason other than pregnancy)

 Context examples 

It may present with hyperprolactinemia and amenorrhea.

(Ovarian Dermoid Cyst with Prolactin Secreting Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients may present with pseudoprecocity, menometrorrhagia, amenorrhea, hirsutism, and hoarseness.

(Ovarian Sertoli Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include visual disturbances, headache, amenorrhea, and decreased libido.

(Pituicytoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The hormone has been used in treating amenorrhea, functional uterine bleeding, endometriosis, and for contraception.

(Norethindrone Acetate, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A disorder characterized by the permanent cessation of menses, usually defined by 12 consecutive months of amenorrhea in a woman over 45 years of age.

(Menopause, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

The permanent cessation of menses, usually defined by 6 to 12 months of amenorrhea in a woman over 45 years of age.

(Menopause, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder most often seen in adolescent females characterized by a refusal to maintain a minimally normal body weight, an intense fear of gaining weight, a disturbance in body image, and, in postmenarcheal females, the development of amenorrhea.

(Anorexia nervosa, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include a round face, upper body obesity, fragile and thin skin, purple stretch marks in the skin, fatigue, muscle weakness, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hypertrichosis and amenorrhea in women, impotence in men, and osteoporosis.

(Cushing syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

The symptoms and signs may include rapidly developing adiposity of the face, neck, and trunk, kyphosis caused by osteoporosis of the spine, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, amenorrhea, hypertrichosis in females, impotence in males, dusky complexion with purple markings, polycythemia, pain in the abdomen and back, and muscular wasting and weakness.

(Cushing syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)