Does "after her 8-week gestation since menolipsis" sound natural?

[NewHopeR]

The examination conducted after her 8-week gestation since menolipsis showed everything going well.

 

[bhaisahab]

The examination conducted after her 8-week gestation since menolipsis showed everything going well.

It doesn't make sense. Try, "The examination conducted after 8 weeks gestation showed everything going well."

 

[BobK]

:up: If gestation is happening, menolipsis must have occurred, so there's no need to use it.

b

 

[Rover_KE]

If anybody's wondering. . .

menolipsis [men″o-lip´sis]temporary cessation of menstruation.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

Rover
(Not a gynaecologist)

 

[emsr2d2]

Rover
(Not a gynaecologist)

:loling: That should really be your new signature line Rover!

If gestation is happening then menolipsis must have occurred, I agree. The reverse is not true though, in case anyone else was wondering!

 

[Raymott]

The examination conducted after her 8-week gestation since menolipsis showed everything going well.

Menolipsis? I've never heard the term. Has anyone else?
We call it amenorrhoea or a 'missed period'. Where did you find 'menolipsis' used?

 

[SoothingDave]

In the US, they would refer to how many weeks since LMP (last menstrual period).

 

[emsr2d2]

Menolipsis? I've never heard the term. Has anyone else?
We call it amenorrhoea or a 'missed period'. Where did you find 'menolipsis' used?

Amenorrhea seems to be "absence of period" but menolipsis specifically "temporary/temporal absence".

 

[Raymott]

Amenorrhea seems to be "absence of period" but menolipsis specifically "temporary/temporal absence".

In 23 years of medical practice, I've never heard the term 'menolipsis'. That's the point I was making.
When you have a patient with amenorrhoea (for one month or 10 years), you can't tell if it's menolipsis or not until/unless she gets another period. It's necessarily a term you can only use in hindsight: "She went for a period of three months with menolipsis/amenorrhea last year." I can't see that the term has any benefit over 'amenorrhoea', and Australian doctors and US and British Obstetric textbooks don't use the term. That's why I was wondering where NewHope found it.

 

[emsr2d2]

In 23 years of medical practice, I've never heard the term 'menolipsis'. That's the point I was making.
When you have a patient with amenorrhoea (for one month or 10 years), you can't tell if it's menolipsis or not until/unless she gets another period. It's necessarily a term you can only use in hindsight: "She went for a period of three months with menolipsis/amenorrhea last year." I can't see that the term has any benefit over 'amenorrhoea', and Australian doctors and US and British Obstetric textbooks don't use the term. That's why I was wondering where NewHope found it.

Well, you should know!! But for info, I searched it and found it here and here. However, it doesn't come up in the online OED now that I've checked. I only searched for it because it had been posted here. I'd certainly never heard of it before - understandably as I have absolutely no days of medical practice, let alone years!

 

[Raymott]

Well, you should know!! But for info, I searched it and found it here and here. However, it doesn't come up in the online OED now that I've checked. I only searched for it because it had been posted here. I'd certainly never heard of it before - understandably as I have absolutely no days of medical practice, let alone years!

Yes, you can find it in dictionaries. Can you find it in any Western medical texts or articles?

 

[emsr2d2]

Yes, you can find it in dictionaries. Can you find it in any Western medical texts or articles?

Honestly, I didn't look. I'm not saying it's used. I simply didn't query it because having seen it, realising I'd never heard it before, I shoved it into Google and clicked on the first three hits. At that point, I didn't take any notice of which dictionaries they were or whether any of them were medicine-related. I went with the fact that the word appeared to exist, was spelt correctly and seemed to mean what the OP thought it meant. When it comes to specialist terminology, I certainly wouldn't try to advise a student on whether or not a word is actually used within those specialist circles. That is, quite rightly, for people like you to do! :-D

 

[BobK]

...I'd certainly never heard of it before ...

Nor had I; I just guessed, based on the prefix and the context. ;-)

b