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A combination of distressing physical, psychologic, or behavioral changes that occur during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle. Symptoms of PMS are diverse (such as pain, water-retention, anxiety, cravings, and depression) and they diminish markedly 2 or 3 days after the initiation of menses.
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- Premenstrual Syndromes
- Syndrome, Premenstrual
- Syndromes, Premenstrual
- Premenstrual Tension
- Premenstrual Tensions
- Tension, Premenstrual
- Tensions, Premenstrual
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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86; was PREMENSTRUAL TENSION 1963-85
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- National Library of Medicine. Premenstrual Syndrome. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D011293. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D011293
- Premenstrual Syndrome. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premenstrual_syndrome
- Premenstrual Syndrome. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q220193