Climateric vs. Climacteric — What's the Difference?

(obsolete) climatic

See menopause.

See perimenopause.

A critical period or year in a person's life when major changes in health or fortune are thought to take place.

A critical stage, period, or year

Of or relating to a climacteric.

Critical; crucial.

Pertaining to any of several supposedly critical years of a person's life.

Critical or crucial; decisive.

(medicine) Relating to a period of physiological change during middle age; especially, menopausal.

Climactic.

A critical stage or decisive point; a turning point.

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).

(medicine) The period of life that leads up to and follows the end of menstruation in women; the menopause.

Relating to a climacteric; critical.

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.

Any critical period.

A period in a man's life corresponding to menopause

The time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends