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The time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends
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climacteric
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Climacteric may refer to: Climacteric year , in astrology Climacteric (human) , a phase in human, specially female, development Climacteric (botany) , a stage of fruit ripening Climacteric (journal) , a journal published by Informa Healthcare
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Climacteric \Cli*mac"ter*ic\, n. A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place in the constitution. The critical periods are thought by some to be the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9; to ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a period in a man's life corresponding to menopause the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends [syn: menopause , change of life ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600 (adj.), 1620s (n.), from Latin climactericus , from Greek klimakterikos "of a critical period," from klimakter "rung of a ladder" (see climax (n.)). A critical stage in human life, a period supposed to be especially liable to change. By some, held ...
Usage examples of climacteric.
They are all climacteric fruits, and as long as they are picked fully mature in size and shape, they will ripen to some extent and in some ways.
That crystalline mass must have reached its climacteric within the gravitational field of the star, and even a quiet star cannot withstand an assault of antimatter.
Some of us cannot keep our flies zipped, others remain faithful to one mate till menopause or the Grand Climacteric steps in.
He presently began asking certain questions about the grand climacteric, which eventful period of life he was fast approaching.
With their worthy chairman still at the helm, he had no doubt that in spite of the still low--he would not say fallingbarometer, and the-er-unseasonable climacteric, they might rely on weathering the--er--he would not say storm.
Knowing nothing then of what he would later learn of the techniques of Climacterics, Pierce could not chart his distemper, though in looking back he could see clearly enough what had happened to him: he had simply fallen off his twenty-first-year Plateau, his Third Climacteric.
The conditions in which bromides are most frequently used are insomnia, epilepsy, whooping-cough, delirium tremens, asthma, migraine, laryngismus stridulus, the symptoms often attendant upon the climacteric in women, hysteria, neuralgia, certain nervous disorders of the heart, strychnine poisoning, nymphomania and spermatorrhoea.
It's become easier to see the climacteric changes in the Moms's own body since she began confining herself more and more to the Headmaster's House.
Beazeley, the housekeeper, was a good-tempered woman, long passed the grand climacteric, and strongly attached to Forster, with whom she had resided many years.
And the grand climacteric of a four-month's private war would be reached.
And the grand climacteric of a four-months private war would be reached.