Climacteric
[klai'mæktәrik]
Definition
(a.) Relating to a climacteric; critical.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Any critical period.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Critical period of life.
Inputed by Edgar
Definition
n. a critical period in human life in which some great bodily change is supposed to take place: a critical time.—adj. pertaining to such a period: critical.—adj. Climacter′ical.—The grand climacteric the sixty-third year supposed to be a critical period for men.
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