When a human female reaches a certain age, then vaginal bleeding occurs for a few days after rehular intervals of time:
(a) what is this process known as (i) in scientific terms, and (ii) in everyday language?
(b) What is the human female said to have attained at this stage?
(c) What does the onset of this process in human female signify?
(d) At what particular event in the life of a human female this process stops temporarily but starts again?
(e) What name is given to the event when this process stops permanently?
Answers
a) this process is known as Menstrual Cycle.
i) Menstruation is a process in a woman of discharging blood and other materials from the lining of the uterus at about one monthly interval from puberty until menopause, except during pregnancy.
ii) Blooding based on monthly interval in females.
b) Human female is said to be matured or adolescent.
c) Development of breasts.
Sudden increase in height.
Hair growth in the pubic areas and under arms.
d) While pregnancy.
e) Menopause.
(a) menstruation ; periods
(b) puberty
(c) reproductive maturity
(d) pregnancy
(e) menopause
Explanation:
(a) The process is known as menstruation. In everyday language, it is called periods.
(b) The human female is said to have attained puberty at this stage.
(c) The onset of menstruation in human female signifies reproductive maturity.
(d) Menstruation stops when the female is pregnant and resumes after delivery of the baby. Females menstruate every month from menarche to menopause.
(e) Menopause is the event when this process stops permanently.