A client tells the nurse that she experiences heavy menstrual bleeding. The nurse would document this condition as being:
1. dysmenorrhea.
2. menorrhagia.
3. metrorrhagia.
4. polymenorrhea.
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Menorrhagia is heavy menstrual bleeding. Metrorrhagia is bleeding between menses. Dysmenorrhea is pain during the menstrual cycle, and polymenorrhea is having menstrual cycles at 2- to 3-week intervals.
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