What Is Endometriosis?

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Endometriosis is a multi symptomatic, systemic disease that can affect all the organs in the body. Historically has always been associated with menstration, with heavy menstrual bleeding, with fertility. When it was studied in the 19 forties by an american physician called joseph meags, he assumed that it was becoming more diagnosed because women at that time were putting off having children until later in life.

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