dysmenorrhoeic
See also: dysmenorrhœic
English
Adjective
dysmenorrhoeic (not comparable)
- Alternative spelling of dysmenorrheic
- 1982, Miriam Stoppard, Everywoman's Life Guide, Macdonald (1982), →ISBN, page 234:
- Doctors are now able to prescribe drugs known as prostaglandin inhibitors, or anti-prostaglandins, which work by inhibiting excess production of prostaglandin, thereby making dysmenorrhoeic women normal.
- 1989, The Practice of Behavioural Medicine (eds. Shirley Pearce & Jane Wardle), BPS Books (1989), →ISBN, page 193:
- It is currently believed that dysmenorrhoeic women have an excessive release of prostaglandins or an excessive sensitivity to their presence.
- 2006, Caroline Anderson, Maternal Instinct, Mills & Boon (2006), →ISBN, page 164:
- Obviously her body had decided that it was time for a full-on dysmenorrhoeic horror show, and it had chosen to today to start.
- 1982, Miriam Stoppard, Everywoman's Life Guide, Macdonald (1982), →ISBN, page 234:
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