A client tells the nurse that she has not had menstrual cycles for 2 months since she has been training for a marathon. The nurse would document this client's lack of regular menstrual cycles as being:
1. dysmenorrhea.
2. primary amenorrhea.
3. oligomenorrhea.
4. secondary amenorrhea.
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Secondary amenorrhea is when a woman has normal menstrual cycles but then stops. Dysmenorrhea is pain during the menstrual cycle, and oligomenorrhea is the absence of menstrual cycles for 3 months or longer. Primary amenorrhea is the lack of a menstrual cycle by age 16.
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