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Descriptor English: Menstruation
Descriptor Spanish: Menstruación
Descriptor menstruación
Scope note: Eliminación periódica del ENDOMETRIO y sangrado menstrual asociado en el CICLO MENSTRUAL de las hembras humanas y primates. La menstruación se debe a una disminución de la PROGESTERONA circulante y se produce al final de la FASE LUTEÍNICA, cuanto tiene lugar la LUTEÓLISIS del CUERPO LÚTEO.
Descriptor Portuguese: Menstruação
Descriptor French: Menstruation
Tree number(s): G08.686.605.428
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008598
Scope note: The periodic shedding of the ENDOMETRIUM and associated menstrual bleeding in the MENSTRUAL CYCLE of humans and primates. Menstruation is due to the decline in circulating PROGESTERONE, and occurs at the late LUTEAL PHASE when LUTEOLYSIS of the CORPUS LUTEUM takes place.
Annotation: human & other primates only; non-primates = ESTRUS; do not confuse with MENSTRUAL CYCLE
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
DE drug effects
EH ethnology
GE genetics
IM immunology
ME metabolism
PH physiology
PX psychology
RE radiation effects
UR urine
Related: Menstruation-Inducing Agents MeSH
Premenstrual Syndrome MeSH
DeCS ID: 8767
Unique ID: D008598
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2018/05/27
Menstruation - Preferred
Concept UI M0013398
Scope note The periodic shedding of the ENDOMETRIUM and associated menstrual bleeding in the MENSTRUAL CYCLE of humans and primates. Menstruation is due to the decline in circulating PROGESTERONE, and occurs at the late LUTEAL PHASE when LUTEOLYSIS of the CORPUS LUTEUM takes place.
Preferred term Menstruation



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