Sentences with phrase «cavity during menstruation»

In the 1920s, Johns Hopkins graduate and trained gynecologist John Sampson first coined the term «endometriosis» and proposed the idea that endometriosis resulted when normal endometrial tissue spilled out through the fallopian tubes into the abdominal cavity during menstruation.

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One common theory is that this condition is the consequence of «retrograde menstruation», when some of the menstrual blood seeps backwards into the fallopian tubes and travels up the abdominal cavity during the monthly menses.