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menses
noun
The discharge of blood mixed with pieces of cellular tissue from the uterus of a female out through her vagina, which occurs roughly every month; menstrual flow.
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Physiologic leukorrhea is a normal condition occurring within several months to a year of the onset of menses in adolescent girls and is sometimes present in newborn girls, usually lasting one to two months.
A few tribes, including the Plains Cree, ritually marked the occurrence of the girl's first menses.
Among the Patagonian and Pampean tribes, a special hut known as the pretty house was erected for initiation ceremonies (as well as for some other rites, such as first menses).
But menses is a part of the machinery of my body.
"There is a culture of shaming around women's bodies particularly as it relates to menses," she wrote to me in an email.
The diagnosis may be made during infancy or childhood on the basis of these anomalies or at puberty when the individual fails to develop secondary sex characteristics or has no menses.
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The chances of those claims against the generic companies succeeding are unclear after a 2011 Supreme Court decision, Pliva v. Mensing, which ruled that generic drug companies had no control over what their labels said and so could not be sued for failing to alert patients about the risks of taking their drugs.
Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the majority in the later case, Pliva Inc. v. Mensing, acknowledged that the distinction between generic and brand-name drugs "makes little sense" from the perspective of injured consumers.
"For Chinese New Year, I showed my homeroom class a short YouTube video of a New Year's parade in China," Ms. Mensing said.
The federal government has sided with the generic drug makers in this case even though it opposed the industry in the Mensing case.
"The Mensing decision creates a troubling inconsistency in the law governing prescription drugs," Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, who sponsored the bill along with six other Democrats, said in a statement Wednesday.
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