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MeSH Heading: Menstruation
Tree Number(s): G08.686.605.428
Unique ID: D008598
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008598
Annotation: human & other primates only; non-primates = ESTRUS; do not confuse with MENSTRUAL CYCLE
Scope Note: The periodic shedding of the ENDOMETRIUM and associated menstrual bleeding in the MENSTRUAL CYCLE of humans and primates. Menstruation is due to the decline in circulating PROGESTERONE, and occurs at the late LUTEAL PHASE when LUTEOLYSIS of the CORPUS LUTEUM takes place.
See Also: Menstruation-Inducing Agents; Premenstrual Syndrome
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2018/05/27

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

drug effects (DE)

ethnology (EH)

genetics (GE)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

physiology (PH)

psychology (PX)

radiation effects (RE)

urine (UR)

Menstruation MeSH Descriptor Data 2025