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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Climacteric \Cli*mac"ter*ic\ (? or ?; 277), a. [L. climactericus, Gr. ?. See Climacter.] Relating to a climacteric; critical.
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 which others add the 81st year.
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Any critical period.
It is your lot, as it was mine, to live during one of the grand climacterics of the world.
--Southey.
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 to be the years that are multiples of 7 (7, 14, 21, etc.), by others only the odd multiples (7, 21, 35, etc.), and by still others the multiples of 9. The Great Climacteric was the 63rd year (7x9), supposed to be especially critical.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Pertaining to any of several supposedly critical years of a person's life. (from 17th c.) 2 critical or crucial; decisive. (from 17th c.) 3 (context medicine English) Relating to a period of physiological change during middle age; especially, menopausal. (from 18th c.) 4 climactic. (from 18th c.) n. 1 A critical stage or decisive point; a turning point. (from 17th c.) 2 A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place, calculated in different ways by different authorities (often identified as every seventh or ninth year). (from 17th c.) 3 (context medicine English) The period of life that leads up to and follows the end of menstruation in women; the menopause. (from 18th c.)
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]
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
In current practice, climacteric a period in a woman's life corresponding to menopause. In Princeton University's online Wordnet database, climacteric is listed as:
- (n) climacteric (a period in a woman's life corresponding to menopause)
- (n) menopause, climacteric, change of life (the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends)
The term is used by the International Menopause Society, which defines itself as "the society for the study of all aspects of the menopause in human."
The climacteric is a stage of fruit ripening associated with increased ethylene production and a rise in cellular respiration. Apples, bananas, melons, apricots, tomatoes (among others) are climacteric fruit. Citrus, grapes, strawberries are non-climacteric (they ripen without ethylene and respiration bursts). However, there are non-climacteric melons and apricots, and grapes and strawberries harbour several ethylene receptors which are active. Climacteric is the final physiological process that marks the end of fruit maturation and the beginning of fruit senescence. Its defining point is the sudden rise in respiration of the fruit and normally takes place without any external influences. After the climacteric period, respiration rates (noted by carbon dioxide production) return to or below the point before the event. The climacteric event also leads to other changes in the fruit including pigment changes and sugar release. For those fruits raised as food the climacteric event marks the peak of edible ripeness, with fruits having the best taste and texture for consumption. After the event fruits are more susceptible to fungal invasion and begin to degrade with cell death.
Climacteric is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal that covers all aspects of aging in men and women, especially during the menopause and climacteric. As the official journal of the International Menopause Society, Climacteric also publishes position statements and workshop proceedings from the society.
Climacteric was established in 1998. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 2.264. The editors-in-chief are Anna Fenton ( Christchurch Women's Hospital) and Nick Panay ' Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital).
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.