Amenorrhea

(ah-men-o-re' '-ah). Absence, irregularity, or suppre ion of menstruation when it should normally be present. The secretion may be retained, the result of congenital or acquired atresia of some part of the lower genital tract; or it may not take place in consequence of an imperfect development of the ovaries or uterus; or it may be suppre ed because of some form of constitutional disease, especially anemia. Primitive, is a term applied to those cases in which the catamenia have not appeared at the proper time, and Secondary, to those in which the discharge has been arrested after it has existed during the reproductive period of life, (ah-men-o-re' -al). Pertaining to amenorrhea, wment (a'-ment). A person affected with amentia; an idiot, ment or Amentum (am'-ent, am-ent' -um). In biology, a scaly spike or catkin, i menta ceo us (am-en-ta'-she-us). In biology, related in some way to an ament.