metropathia

English

Noun

metropathia (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) disease of the uterus
    • 1931, Medical Journal of Australia, volume 1, page 69:
      It is a very significant fact that similar changes occur in endometrium which is the seat of certain types of metropathia.
    • 2014, Jeffrey S. Tobias, Daniel Hochhauser, Cancer and its Management, page 332:
      Late menopause is a risk factor because of excess and prolonged oestrogen exposure and also the frequency of late anovulatory (oestrogenic) cycles and the presence of metropathia.

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  • metropathia haemorrhagica, metropathia hemorrhagica

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