Crossword-Solution: OESTRUS 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Menstruation, then, must be interpreted as an abortive parturition, both in woman and lower Mammals, though in the latter it is not usually accompanied by hemorrhage, and is called pro-oestrus.

When the ovum or ova, not being fertilised, die the period of development is (usually) shortened and pro-oestrus or menstruation occurs.

They seem to be impelled by a variety of causes--such as climatic and economic influences, a long course of misgovernment, Byzantinism in religion, and an inherited leaning to Oriental mysticism--to distort their reasoning powers, and far from using them, as was the case with the pre-eminently sane Greek genius, to temper the excesses of the imagination, to employ them rather as an oestrus to lash the imaginative faculties to a state verging on madness.

Towards the spring the larvæ of the oestrus attaining a large size, produce so many perforations in the skins, that they are good for nothing.

The Indians consider them to belong to the same species with the oestrus, that deposits its ova under the skin: to us the larvæ of the former appeared more flattened than those of the latter.