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Etymology

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From menstrual +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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menstrually (not comparable)

  1. In a menstrual manner; in terms of the menses.
    menstrually associated migraine
    a woman who is menstrually unclean
    • 1856 September, Wm. Cowan, “Rheumatism”, in Henry Goadby, editor, The Medical Independent: A Monthly Review of Medicine and Surgery[1], volume 2, number 1, page 78:
      It cannot, I think, be denied that, in chlorotic women the blood becomes poisoned from the retention of the discharge; (menstrually) and if that be so, and it can be proved I think, the following cases will show that chlorasis had any thing to do with the production of these cases.
    • 1884, The Eclectic Medical Journal[2], volume 44, page 398:
      School girls who are kept on a scanty diet are apt to lapse menstrually, and should be put on a more nutritive dietary regimen.
    • 2015, Seymour Diamond, Headache and Migraine Biology and Management[3], page 125:
      in addition to those occurring at menses, the diagnosis of menstrually related migraine (A1.1.2) is used.