premenstrual syndrome

Etymology
to replace the earlier, which she considered accidentally created the impression of focusing solely on PMS's mental aspects.

Noun

 * 1) The physical and psychological malaise experienced by many women between ovulation and the onset of menstruation; premenstrual tension.
 * 2) * 1969: Public Health Service publication no. 263, sect. 20, 1969
 * In The Premenstrual Syndrome, Dr. Katherina Dalton summarizes many studies of behavior change that show a large portion of crimes (63 percent in an English study, 84 percent in a French) are not distributed evenly over time, but clustered in the premenstrual interval along with suicides, accidents, a decline in the quality of schoolwork, decline in intelligence test scores, visual acuity, and response speed.
 * In The Premenstrual Syndrome, Dr. Katherina Dalton summarizes many studies of behavior change that show a large portion of crimes (63 percent in an English study, 84 percent in a French) are not distributed evenly over time, but clustered in the premenstrual interval along with suicides, accidents, a decline in the quality of schoolwork, decline in intelligence test scores, visual acuity, and response speed.

Related terms

 * (PMDD)

Translations

 * Czech: premenstruační syndrom
 * French:
 * Italian: sindrome premestruale
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: síndrome premenstrual