dysmenorrhea

English

Alternative forms

• dysmenorrhoea (British)
• dysmenorrhœa (chiefly British)

Etymology

From dys- +‎ meno- +‎ -rrhea = dys- +‎ menorrhœa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪs.mɛ.nəˈɹi.ə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

dysmenorrhea (countable and uncountable, plural dysmenorrheas)

2. (medicine) Painful menstruation (menstrual pain), viewed as a symptom in any of various disorders.
4. (medicine) Painful menstruation (menstrual pain), viewed as a disorder in its own right (and thus a diagnosis).

Synonyms

• menorrhalgia
• period pain

Antonyms

• eumenorrhea

Coordinate terms

• amenorrhea

Derived terms

• dysmenorrheal
• dysmenorrheic
• dysmenorrhic

Translations

painful menstruation

• Catalan: dismenorrea f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 經痛／经痛 (zh) (jīngtòng), 痛經／痛经 (zh) (tòngjīng), 月經絞痛／月经绞痛 (yuèjīng jiǎotòng)

• Dutch: dysmenorroe (nl)
• Estonian: düsmenorröa
• Finnish: dysmenorrea, kuukautiskipu
• French: dysménorrhée (fr) f
• German: Menstruationsbeschwerden f pl, Regelschmerzen m pl, Dysmenorrhoe
• Greek: δυσμηνόρροια (el) (dysminórroia)
• Italian: dismenorrea (it) f
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: дисменорея (dismenoreä)
• Korean: 생리통 (ko) (saengnitong)
• Portuguese: dismenorreia (pt) f
• Russian: дисменоре́я (ru) f (dismenoréja)
• Spanish: dismenorrea f
• Tagalog: masakit na dating
• Vietnamese: đau bụng kinh

See also

• premenstrual syndrome (in which menstrual pain is often a component)
• polycystic ovary syndrome (in which menstrual pain is often a component)

References

• The Language of Medicine