premenstrual syndrome

短语

[医] 经前期综合征

发音

别名

pre-menstrual syndrome

释义与例句

1.

The physical and psychological malaise experienced by many women between ovulation and the onset of menstruation; premenstrual tension.

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In The Premenstrual Syndrome, Dr. Katherina Dalton summarizes many studies of behavior change that show a large portion of crimes (63 percent in an English study, 84 percent in a French) are not distributed evenly over time, but clustered in the premenstrual interval along with suicides, accidents, a decline in the quality of schoolwork, decline in intelligence test scores, visual acuity, and response speed.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

PMS

上位词 1

syndrome

词源

Coined by Katharina Dalton in 1953 to replace the earlier premenstrual tension, which she considered accidentally created the impression of focusing solely on PMS's mental aspects.

来源：wiktionary