Definitions from Wiktionary (climacteric)

▸ adjective:  Pertaining to any of several supposedly critical years of a person's life.
▸ adjective:  Critical or crucial; decisive.
▸ adjective:  (medicine) Relating to a period of physiological change during middle age; especially, menopausal.
▸ adjective:  Climactic.
▸ noun:  A critical stage or decisive point; a turning point.
▸ noun:  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).
▸ noun:  (medicine) The period of life that leads up to and follows the end of menstruation in women; the menopause.





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