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Climacteric
Meaning
Adj
●
Pertaining to any of several
supposedly
critical
years of a person's life.
●
Critical or
crucial
; decisive.
●
In Medicine:
Relating to a
period
of
physiological
change during
middle age
; especially, menopausal.
●
Climactic.
Noun
●
A
critical
stage
or
decisive
point; a
turning
point.
●
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).
●
In Medicine:
The
period
of life that
leads up to
and
follows
the
end of
menstruation
in women; the menopause.
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Origin
climacteric
English
climactericus
Latin
κλίμάκτήρίκος
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Sourced from
Etym
Related
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