- Amenorrhea- It indicates the absence of menstruation. It is a symptom and not a disease entity.
- Oligomenorrhoea – It denotes infrequent, irregularly timed episodes of bleeding usually occurring at intervals of more than 35 days.
- Polymenorrhoea- It denotes frequent episodes of menstruation, usually occurring at intervals of 21 days or less.
- Menorrhagia- It denotes regularly timed episodes of bleeding that are excessive in amount (>80ml) and/or duration of flow (>5 days).
- Metrorrhagia- It refers to irregularly timed episodes of bleeding superimposed on normal cyclical bleeding.
- Menometrorrhagia- It means excessive, prolonged bleeding that occurs at irregularly timed and frequent intervals.
- Hypomenorrhoea- It refers to regularly timed but scanty episodes of bleeding.
- Intermenstrual- It refers to bleeding (usually not excessive) that occurs between otherwise normal menstrual cycles.
- Precocious menstruation- It denotes the occurrence of menstruation before the age of 10 years.
- Postcoital Bleeding- It denotes vaginal bleeding after sexual intercourse.
References-
- Howkins & Bourne : Shaw’s Textbook of Gynaecology .