Term | Description |
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No periods | |
Dysmenorrhea | |
Hypomenorrhea | Unusually light periods |
Menometrorrhagia | Heavy bleeding during menstrual periods and bleeding that occurs frequently and irregularly between periods |
Menorrhagia (hypermenorrhea) | Unusually long and/or heavy periods |
Metrorrhagia | Bleeding that occurs frequently and irregularly between periods |
Oligomenorrhea | Unusually infrequent periods |
Polymenorrhea | Unusually frequent periods |
Postmenopausal bleeding | Bleeding that occurs after menopause |
Severe psychologic symptoms that occur before the start of a period, end when or shortly after the period starts, and interfere with daily activities and/or relationships | |
Physical and psychologic symptoms that occur before the start of a period | |
Primary amenorrhea | No periods ever starting (at puberty) |
Secondary amenorrhea | Periods that started and have stopped |
* Breaking the words into their components helps decipher them: a = no; dys = painful (or abnormal); hypo = deficient (or below normal); men = month; metro = uterus; oligo = few or scanty; poly = many or much; post = after; pre = before; rhagia = to burst forth; rhea = flow. |