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Menopause   /mˈɛnəpˌaʊz/   Listen
Menopause

noun
1.
The time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends.  Synonyms: change of life, climacteric.



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"Menopause" Quotes from Famous Books



... There ripens in one of these bodies each month a human baby-seed, which finds its way to the uterus through the little fallopian tube and is apparently lost in the debris of cells and mucus which, with the accompanying hemorrhage go to make up the menstrual flow. This continues from puberty to menopause, each gland alternatingly ripening its ovum, only to lose it in the periodical phenomenon of menstruation, which is seldom interrupted save by that still more wonderful ...
— The Mother and Her Child • William S. Sadler



Words linked to "Menopause" :   biological time, change of life, climacteric, middle age, menopausal, post-menopause



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