climacteric
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.
I should hardly yield my rigid fibers to be regenerated by them; nor begin, in my grand climacteric, to squall in their new accents, or to stammer, in my second cradle, the elemental sounds of their barbarous metaphysics.
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.
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