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.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

It is also called the catamenia or catamenia-flow (Greek, kata -- by, men -- a month).    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference

It is plain, then, that the catamenia are a secretion, and that they are analogous in females to the semen in males.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Generation of Animals] Reference

At the same age in the female, the breasts swell and the so-called catamenia commence to flow; and this fluid resembles fresh blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

It has been stated then that the catamenia are a secretion as the semen is, and confirmation of this view may be drawn from some of the phenomena of animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Generation of Animals] Reference

And such is the discharge of the so-called catamenia.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Generation of Animals] Reference

The discharge and collection of the catamenia also excite heat in this part.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Generation of Animals] Reference

In response to his argument the decree against catamenia was accordingly abolished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference

(In some women the catamenia occur regularly but sparsely every month, and more abundantly every third month.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

This is just what we find to be the case, for the catamenia have in their nature an affinity to the primitive matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Generation of Animals] Reference

For if she had semen she would not have the catamenia; but, as it is, because she has the latter she has not the former.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Generation of Animals] Reference

The catamenia are more abundant in women than in the other animals, and men emit the most semen in proportion to their size.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Generation of Animals] Reference

So it should be a quiet day, which is good because I got a lousy night's sleep what with the catamenia my new favorite word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pen-Elayne on the Web] Reference

For the present let it be simply stated as a fact, that the catamenia of the female like the semen of the male are residual matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Parts of Animals] Reference

For the discharge of the catamenia is in females a sort of emission of semen, they being unconcocted semen as has been said before.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Generation of Animals] Reference

I am assured by some persons of credit, that if they are touched, or even approached, by a woman in her catamenia, they infallibly expire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels through France and Italy] Reference

Thus the catamenia cause generation mixture with the semen, as this impure nutriment in plants is nutritious when mixed with pure nutriment.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Generation of Animals] Reference

If these results do not follow it is a sign that the passages of the body, through which the catamenia are secreted, are clogged and closed.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Generation of Animals] Reference

Has not your lady, may I ask, heretofore at the period of the catamenia, suffered, if indeed not from anaemia, then necessarily from plethora?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

Menstruation -- "the periods" -- the appearance of the catamenia or the menses -- is then one of the most important epochs in a girl's life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

After this we must distinguish of what sort of nutriment it is a secretion, and must discuss the catamenia which occur in certain of the vivipara.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Generation of Animals] Reference

We find also that the bodies of female mules grow large because the matter which is secreted in other animals to form the catamenia is diverted to growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Generation of Animals] Reference

It is clear then that the female contributes the material for generation, and that this is in the substance of the catamenia, and that they are a secretion.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Generation of Animals] Reference

This is the periodical development and discharge of an ovule (one or more) by the female, accompanied by the discharge of a fluid, known as menses or catamenia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English] Reference

If the generative secretion in the catamenia is properly concocted, the movement imparted by the male will make the form of the embryo in the likeness of itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Generation of Animals] Reference

For the female is, as it were, a mutilated male, and the catamenia are semen, only not pure; for there is only one thing they have not in them, the principle of soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Generation of Animals] Reference

Dodd describes a case in which the catamenia were on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Thus it is known who have their catamenia and who have not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 03] Reference

In place of catamenia there was a discharge reddish-green in color.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Her catamenia were very scant, but this was attributed to her change of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Blake reports an instance of catamenia and mammary secretion during pregnancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Perhaps the venous hæmorrhages obey the lunar periods, as the catamenia, and hæmorrhoids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

The correspondence of the periods of the catamenia with those of the moon was treated of in Sect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

The other did not marry, and although not a dwarf, was under-sized; she had her catamenia every third week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

The streaks represent catamenia, and the gradual growth of the moon is assumed to be parallel with prenatal growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The North American Indian] Reference

Longhi describes the case of a woman of twenty-seven, an epileptic, with metritis and copious catamenia twice a month.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Dupuytren speaks of denudation of the skin from a burn, with the subsequent development of vicarious catamenia from the seat of the injury.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference