Difference between Period and Menses

What is the difference between Period and Menses?

Period as a noun is punctuation mark “” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation). while Menses as a noun is menstrual flow.

Period

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Appropriate for a given historical era.

Part of speech: interjection

Definition: And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Punctuation mark “” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation). A length of time. An epoch, era, time in history or in a person's life. A specific length of time that an activity (such as a game or a school day) is conventionally divided into. The minimum interval during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet. Female menstruation. A row in the periodic table of the elements. A Drosophila gene which gene product is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm

Example sentence: I accept I am not everyone's cup of tea, but judge me over a period of time.

Menses

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Menstrual flow.

We hope you now know whether to use Period or Menses in your sentence.

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