Citations:œstruation

Noun

 * 1849, W. Tyler Smith, in London Journal of Medicine, Taylor, Walton, & Maberly; Volume I, page #468:
 * But the great points brought prominently forward are, the homological relations which exist between, menstruation in the human subject, œstruation in mammalia ; oviposition in birds, amphibia, fishes, and insects […]
 * 1878, Edwin Moses Hale, The Medical, Surgical and Hygienic Treatment of Diseases of Women, Boericke & Tafel; introduction, page #30:
 * It may be well in this connection, and before enumerating the important points in which œstruation and menstruation differ, to call attention to the fact, that even in those cases in which the œstrus and ovulation are synchronous, it has never been proven that the former is caused by the latter.
 * 1884, Canadian Practitioner, William Briggs; Volume IX, page #115:
 * It is held, by those who affirm that menstruation is directly excited by the maturation of Graafian follicles, that it only occurs in association with the ripening of Graafian vesicles, just as happens at the time of œstruation in the females of the lower animals ; and they alleged that menstruation is the exact analogue or counterpart in the human female of œstruation in the lower animals—a statement which is to a large extent, if not entirely, accurate.