MENOPAUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does menopause mean? 

• MENOPAUSE (noun)
  The noun MENOPAUSE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: MENOPAUSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MENOPAUSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

change of life; climacteric; menopause

Hypernyms ("menopause" is a kind of...):

biological time (the time of various biological processes)

Holonyms ("menopause" is a part of...):

middle age (the time of life between youth and old age (e.g., between 40 and 60 years of age))

Derivation:

menopausal (of or relating to the menopause)

 Context examples 

Treatment with estrogens or estrogen/progesterone after menopause or ovariectomy to prevent pathological effects of decreased estrogen production.

(Hormone Replacement Therapy, NCI Thesaurus)

Menopause is the time in a woman's life when her period stops.

(Hormone Replacement Therapy, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Hormones (estrogen, progesterone, or both) given to women after menopause to replace the hormones no longer produced by the ovaries.

(Hormone Replacement Therapy, NCI Dictionary)

A tool used by researchers to study the symptoms of menopause.

(Greene Menopause Index, NCI Dictionary)

You may need surgery if you have pain, are past menopause or if the cyst does not go away.

(Ovarian Cysts, Dept. of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health)

Also, the number of children a woman has also encompasses other factors including child-rearing, age at menopause and health conditions.

(Pregnancy losses and large numbers of children linked with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, University of Cambridge)

Any of the mental or physical manifestations that accompany perimenopause and menopause.

(Menopausal Symptom, NCI Thesaurus)

A woman has reached menopause when she has not had a period for one year.

(Menopause, Dept. of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health)

From puberty until menopause, menstruation occurs about every 28 days when a woman is not pregnant.

(Menstruation, NCI Dictionary)

Periods usually start between age 11 and 14 and continue until menopause at about age 51.

(Menstruation, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)