METRORRHAGIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does metrorrhagia mean? 

• METRORRHAGIA (noun)
  The noun METRORRHAGIA has 1 sense:

1. bleeding from the uterus that is not due to menstruation; usually indicative of disease (as cervical cancer)

  Familiarity information: METRORRHAGIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• METRORRHAGIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bleeding from the uterus that is not due to menstruation; usually indicative of disease (as cervical cancer)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("metrorrhagia" is a kind of...):

bleeding; haemorrhage; hemorrhage (the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel)

 Context examples 

Signs and symptoms include hirsutism, menorrhagia and metrorrhagia.

(Ovarian Sertoli-Leydig Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)