menorrhagia vs period

period vs menorrhagia

menorrhagia and period both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
menorrhagia	Yes	No	No	No
period	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, period is a hypernym of menorrhagia; that is, period is a word with a broader meaning than menorrhagia:

menorrhagia: abnormally heavy or prolonged menstruation; can be a symptom of uterine tumors and can lead to anemia if prolonged
period: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause

Other hypernyms of menorrhagia include catamenia, flow, menses, menstruation, menstruum, symptom.

menorrhagia (noun)	period (noun)
abnormally heavy or prolonged menstruation; can be a symptom of uterine tumors and can lead to anemia if prolonged	a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
	the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
	an amount of time
	the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
	a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
	the end or completion of something
	(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games

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