menopause Phys.
(ˈmɛnəpɔːz)
[ad. mod.L. mēnopausis, f. Gr. µηνο-, µήν month + παῦσις cessation, pause. Cf. F. ménopause.]
The final cessation of the menses. Also fig.
| 1872 Peaslee Ovar. Tumors 2 The 30 or 35 years of menstrual life, i.e. from puberty to the menopause. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 302. 1954 W. Faulkner Fable 69 It was winter again now, the long unbroken line from Alps to sea lying almost quiescent in mud's foul menopause. 1962 J. H. Burn Drugs, Med. & Man xv. 152 Stilboestrol is also used at the menopause when menstruation ends. 1970 Jenner & Segal Men & Marriage 144 In the nineteen-fifties a spate of ‘popular medicine’ articles flooded the press bearing the news that men, too, suffered from the Change of Life and middle-aged men found themselves swamped with sympathy over their newly recognised menopause. 1972 F. Warner Lying Figures iii. 19 Having your mental menopause? |
Hence menoˈpausic a., having symptoms of the menopause.
| 1889 H. Campbell Causation Disease viii. 55 Those menopausic patients who seek medical relief. |