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n. - Bleeding from the uterus that is not due to menstruation.

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  • There is, indeed, no surer way of checking or of stopping a metrorrhagia than by curetting the womb during the very flow.
  • Mrs. C., aged forty-three, who had been under treatment for seven weeks for metrorrhagia, nietortes and peritonitis came under our notice.
  • Its main use is in the treatment of excessive menstrual flow, either during the period itself (menorrhagia) or with blood loss between periods (metrorrhagia).
  • He seems to have been the first one to suggest that in metrorrhagia, with severe hemorrhage from the uterus, the bleeding might be stopped by putting ligatures around...
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