The time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends

Usage examples of menopause.

Its wonderful drug Maxatil had helped countless women through the nightmare of menopause, but now it was under attack by the same sharks that had bankrupted A.

Montgomery, Colomb, and Knehel, each, have recorded the birth of twins in women beyond the usual age of the menopause, and there is a case recorded of a woman of fifty-two who was delivered of twins.

Monsieur Bianchi had become an expert on every menopause in the block, every constipation, every little Alka-Seltzer: it was as though he had rummaged in the bathroom cupboard.

To laypeople, menopause is an inevitable fact of life, albeit often a painful one anticipated with foreboding.

Forward-bending poses also massage the organs in the neuroendocrine axis, alleviating mood swings and insomnia associated with menopause and PMS.

In TLC 7, I help you understand the hormone fluctuations of perimenopause, a normal period of change leading up to menopause that usually lasts four to five years, as well as the decline of estrogen during menopause and how this can affect your physical and emotional state.

New research continues to point to soy foods high in phytoestrogens for reducing or erasing the symptoms of perimenopause and menopause.

For women in perimenopause, or just prior to menopause, the declining levels of the hormone estradiol may increase your chance of poor sleep.

It is thought that Asian women suffer less from the symptoms of menopause and perimenopause than Western women because of the extremely high soy content of their diet.

Natual selection has not programmed menopause into men because of three more cruel facts: men never die in childbirth and rarely die while copulating, and they are less likely than mothers to exhaust themselves caring for infants.

The onset of menopause had already begun, with its strange hot flashes, moments of daffiness, and totally unpredictable menstruations.

A fracture, a burn, a cut, a dropsy, a menopause, a pregnancy, two pelvics, a scattering of colds, a feeding schedule, two teethings, a suspicious lung, a possible gallstone, a cirrhosis of the liver and Martha Anderson.

Hence anthropologists remain undecided whether the two considerations that I have discussed so far—investing in grandchildren and protecting one's prior investment in existing children—suffice to offset menopause's foreclosed option of further children and thus to explain the evolution of human female menopause.

The costs of menopause are the potential children that a woman forgoes by undergoing menopause.

It would be worth looking for evidence of menopause in killer whales and a few other species as possible candidates.