amenorrhea
amenorrhea — noun
1. a medical condition in which a woman of childbearing age does not have her month
a medical condition in which a woman of childbearing age does not have her monthly periods, either because they never started or because they later stopped
Doctors diagnosed Tara with amenorrhea after her periods stopped for six months.
diagnosed with amenorrhea — common verb collocation
Months of intense marathon training caused amenorrhea in several young runners.
cause amenorrhea — cause-and-effect pattern
Élise visited a clinic to find out why her amenorrhea had lasted a year.
Sudden weight loss is a frequent cause of amenorrhea in teenage girls.
The nurse explained that pregnancy is the most common reason for amenorrhea.
- absent menstruation
plain-language description rather than the clinical single-word term
- eumenorrhea
clinical term for normal, regular monthly periods
用法筆記
Often classified as either primary (periods never begin) or secondary (established periods later stop), so a diagnosis usually names which type applies.