Talk:menstrual blood

menstrual blood
Seems pretty SOP to me. Our definitions of menstrual and menses are mutually pathetic, though. —  [Ric Laurent] — 17:44, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it's menstrual (menses-related) + blood. Seeing that it probably comes from the uterus is not a great leap. Delete. Equinox ◑ 20:31, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete, if you can work out the sense from menstrual + blood, we don't need it. --Mglovesfun (talk) 20:47, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Technically, it's not actually blood in the usual sense (though it does contain some blood); but that should be addressed by adding an appropriate sense at [[blood]]. As for this entry — it's like the "adjective noun" entries I recently started a discussion about at the Beer parlour, except that there it's an adjective-specific sense of the noun rather than vice versa. The discussion there leaves me very unsure about how to know which such entries are worth keeping . . . —Ruakh TALK 21:31, 28 September 2011 (UTC)


 * I don't think of menstrual blood as describing the blend of blood and endometrial matter. I separate them in my brain, but I don't know whether doctors do. I know in layspeak they're inseparable, but do layspeak versions of actual medical jargon warrant inclusion when the medical term is SOP? (note that at no point am I likely to weigh in on that question, just putting it out there) —  [Ric Laurent] — 12:15, 29 September 2011 (UTC)


 * I believe that "menstrual blood" has the same meaning both in medical use and in lay use: it always refers to the menstrual fluid as a whole, and never refers specifically to its sanguinary component as you suggest. (The common phrase "menstrual blood loss" does refer specifically to the loss of normal-sense-of-blood, but that's because it's "menstrual {blood loss}" rather than "{menstrual blood} loss".) —Ruakh TALK 18:40, 29 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Deleted. — Ungoliant (Falai) 19:27, 12 August 2012 (UTC)