climacteric

adjective · nounB2

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more climacteric

Superlative

most climacteric

1.
Pertaining to any of several supposedly critical years of a person's life.
2.
Critical or crucial; decisive.
3.
(medicine) Relating to a period of physiological change during middle age; especially, menopausal.
4.
Climactic.
5.
(botany) (of fruit) That continues to ripen after being harvested.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

climacterics

1.
A critical stage or decisive point; a turning point.
Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since, p. 66-67. [H]e was in his grand climacterick, with a florid brow, and a step like youthful agility. Sigourney, Lydia.
2.
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).
3.
(medicine) The period of life that leads up to and follows the end of menstruation in women; the menopause.

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ine-pro From Latin clīmactēricus, from κλιμακτηρικός, from κλιμακτήρ (scale, progression, gradation).