NOUN
- a period in a man's life corresponding to menopause
- the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends
How To Use climacteric In A Sentence
- For now we are approaching the year 1588, “which an astronomer of Konigsberg, above a hundred years before, foretold would be an admirable year, and the German chronologers presaged would be the climacterical year of the world.” Westward Ho!
- I never go home abruptly because a snake crosses my way, nor have any particular dread of a climacterical year; yet I confess that, with all my scorn of old women, and their tales, I consider it as an unhappy day when I happen to be greeted, in the morning, by Suspirius the screech-owl. The Rambler, sections 55-112 (1750-1751); from The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen Volumes, Vol. IV
- Both Western and Chinese herbal traditions have numerous solutions for climacteric women.
- Thus it appears that some aspects of ethylene-dependent gene expression are conserved between climacteric fruits such as melon and tomato.
- Bunning reached some new climacteric of pathetic whining when he bewailed, on the Senate floor, the fact that his own filibuster had caused him to miss a big baseball game on TV. Kara Vallow: Jim Bunning: Too Mean and Weird for the GOP
- This process of alternative and individual reading reaches its climacteric in the ‘full flood of unlicensed text and independent thought’ of the 1640s.
- The fact that such a climacteric event of our history is not being taught is disconcerting.
- Pear are climacteric fruit: their ripening is associated with a burst of autocatalytic ethylene production.
- The majority of this work, however, has been conducted on climacteric species.
- In females about 50 years old, various symptoms of climacteric disorders may appear with the decline of ovarian function.
