mittelschmertz

When the egg bursts from the ovary, it can cause what has been termed "mittelschmertz," or literally "middle pain."

BellaOnline - The Voice of Women 2008

Because I had been convinced by Alberto [Salazar] that that sensation was not hunger and that it was like mittelschmertz (the pain of ovulation), which doesn’t make any sense biologically.”

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