Climacteric

What do we mean by climacteric?

A critical period or year in a person's life when major changes in health or fortune are thought to take place. noun

A critical stage, period, or year. noun

Of or relating to a climacteric. adjective

Critical; crucial. adjective

Pertaining to a critical period, crisis, or climax.

A critical period in life, or a period in winch some great change is supposed to take place in the human constitution; especially, the so-called change of life or menopause. noun

Relating to a climacteric; critical. adjective

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. noun

Any critical period. 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. noun

The period of life that leads up to and follows the end of menstruation in women; the change of life noun

A critical stage or decisive point; a crisis noun

Of or pertaining to the climacteric adjective

Critical or crucial adjective

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

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

The period of life that leads up to and follows the end of menstruation in women; the menopause.

Words that are spelled similarly to climacteric:
climacteric, climacteris, climactic, climacter, climacterium, climacterics.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word climacteric:
ripening, ripen, ethylene, respiration, fruits, fruit, journal, changes, women, event, production.

Adjectives that are often used to describe climacteric:
grand, male, female, great, free, normal, true, premature, post, called, artificial, late, seventh, masculine, menstrual, non, intellectual, senile, revolutionary, anti, mediaeval, respiratory, feminine, induced, physiologic, physiological, protracted, eighth, catamenial, lengthy, pagan, victorian, disturbed, technological, somatic.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective climacteric:
period, symptoms, women, years, fruits, complaints, syndrome, fruit, rise, year, insanity, age, changes, effect, phase, change, woman, periods, disorders, depression, disease, moment, disturbances, stage, peak, point, moments, purpose, patient, phenomenon, epoch, event, patients, psychosis, troubles, order, flushing, phases, arthritis, melancholia, hemorrhage, hemorrhages, status, menopause, hypertension, ailments, events, ovary, symptomatology, symptom, psychoses, ripening, neurosis, respiration, phenomena, result, bleeding, epochs, era, flash, syndromes, disturbance, hour, male, flushes, bleedings, eye, scene, haemorrhage, note, medicine, crisis, apples, flushings, neuroses, cycle, catastrophes, disorder, signs, transition, paranoia, tens, nomination, rhythm, mania, diabetes.

Words that sound like climacteric:
climacteric, climactic, climatic, climaxing, cometary, climaxes, slime bacteria, comatic, schematic, sonatrach.