Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun menstruum

2 senses of menstruum

Sense 1
menstruum -- ((archaic) a solvent)
       => solvent, dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent -- (a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances; "the solvent does not change its state in forming a solution")

Sense 2
menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow -- (the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle)
       => discharge, emission, expelling -- (any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body; "the discharge of pus")