The menopause is the time when a woman's monthly cycles come to an end. Go through the menopause, early menopause, menopause symptoms.
Strictly it is a single point — twelve months after the last period — and the years of symptoms before it are the perimenopause. It usually happens around fifty. Very few species go through it at all; humans and some whales are the exceptions.
1nounmenopauseThe time when a woman's monthly cycles come to an end.
“Hot flushes are a common symptom of the menopause.”
menopause is a life stage.
Greek men, a month, plus pausis, a stopping, coined in French medical writing in the nineteenth century.
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From French ménopause. From French ménopause, from Latin menopausis, from Ancient Greek μήν (“month”) + παῦσις (“pause”). Equivalent to meno + pause.
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