amenorrhoea

English

Alternative forms

• amenorrhea (U.S.)
• amenorrhœa (obsolete)

Etymology

Modern Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀ privative prefix + μήν ‘month’ + -ροια ‘flowing’ (from ῥέειν ‘to flow’).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˌmɛnəˈɹiːə/, /ˌeɪmɛnəˈɹiːə/

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Noun

amenorrhoea (usually uncountable, plural amenorrhoeae or amenorrhoeas)

1. (medicine) Absence of menstrual discharge.

Synonyms

• nonmenstruation

Derived terms

• amenorrhoeal
• amenorrhoeic

Translations

lack of a menstrual period

• Basque: amenorrea
• Bulgarian: аменорея (amenoreja)
• Catalan: amenorrea
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 閉經／闭经 (zh) (bìjīng)

• Dutch: amenorroe (nl)
• Estonian: amenorröa
• Finnish: amenorrea
• French: aménorrhée (fr) f
• German: Amenorrhoe f
• Greek: αμηνόρροια (el) f (aminórroia)
• Irish: aimhíostrú
• Italian: amenorrea
• Japanese: 無月経 (ja) (むげっけい, mugekkei)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: amenoré m, amenore m

• Polish: brak miesiączki (pl)
• Portuguese: amenorreia (pt)
• Russian: аменоре́я (ru) f (amenoréja)
• Serbo-Croatian: amenoreja (sh)
• Slovene: amenoreja
• Spanish: amenorrea f
• Swedish: amenorré (sv)
• Ukrainian: аменорея (amenoreja)

Further reading

• amenorrhoea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia