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Climacteric

noun
1.
A period in a man's life corresponding to menopause.
2.
The time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends.  Synonyms: change of life, menopause.





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"Climacteric" Quotes from Famous Books



... child-voice passed, and it was a new music and a new joy. I can give the reader no notion of it, because there is not in nature anything with which I can compare it. The blackcap has a climacteric note, just before his song collapses and dies, so full of pathos and tenderness that often, when I had been sitting on a gate in Wilderness Road, it had affected me more deeply than any human words. But here was a note sweet and ...
— Aylwin • Theodore Watts-Dunton


Words linked to "Climacteric" :   menopause, change of life, middle age, biological time


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