menstrual cycle vs menstrual period

menstrual cycle

noun
  • The recurring cycle of physiological changes in the uninseminated females of some animal species that is associated with reproductive fertility; especially the cycle in a human woman. 

menstrual period

noun
  • An event of a woman's discharging of menstrual flow of blood and cells. 

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