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Definition of Climacteric

1. Noun. A period in a man's life corresponding to menopause.

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

Definition of Climacteric

1. a. Relating to a climacteric; critical.

2. 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.

Definition of Climacteric

1. Noun. 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. ¹

2. Noun. The period of life that leads up to and follows the end of menstruation in women; the change of life ¹

3. Noun. A critical stage or decisive point; a crisis ¹

4. Noun. ''Grand'' or ''Great '''climacteric''''', the sixty-third year of human life. ¹

5. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the climacteric ¹

6. Adjective. critical or crucial ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Climacteric

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Medical Definition of Climacteric

1. A particular stage of fruit ripening, characterised by a surge of respiratory activity and usually coinciding with full ripeness and flavour in the fruit. Its appearance is hastened by ethylene at low concentrations. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Climacteric

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Literary usage of Climacteric

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Clinical lectures on mental diseases by Sir Thomas Smith Clouston, Charles Follen Folsom (1884)
"At the period of the climacteric there is unquestionably a normal mental ... The real climacteric period in both sexes is never a definite fixed time, ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1866)
"climacteric Insanity in the Male.—Dr. FRANCIS SKAL gives ( Edinburgh Medical Journal, September, 1865) the following conclusions as the result of his ..."

3. What a Woman of Forty-five Ought to Know by Emma Frances Angell Drake (1902)
"CHAPTER I. KNOWLEDGE OF THE climacteric NECESSARY. The People Destroyed for Lack of Knowledge— Women Created with Strength to Bear All Necessary Burdens ..."

4. A Complete pronouncing medical dictionary: Embracing the Terminology of by Joseph Thomas (1885)
"The ninth period, or the sixty-third year, at which the mosl decided change takes place, was regarded j; the "grand climacteric. ..."

5. A clinical history of the medical and surgical diseases of women by Robert Barnes (1878)
"This uncertainty has earned for the climacteric age the expressive term of ... Physicians do, indeed, talk of the climacteric in man; but the analogy is ..."

6. A Text-book of mental diseases: With Special Reference to the Pathological by William Bevan Lewis (1890)
"INSANITY AT THE climacteric EPOCH. Contents.— Symptoms—A Subacute Delusional Melancholia—Suicidal Tendency (SH)—Nymphomania (AA)—Etiology—Incidence of ..."

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