English Dictionary

climacteric

/klʌɪmakˈtɛɹɪk/

noun

A critical stage or decisive point; a turning point.

The climacteric of his career came when he was promoted to CEO.

意味（1）

A critical stage or decisive point; a turning point.

It is your lot, as it was mine, to live during one of the grand climacterics of the world.

意味（2）

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).

意味（3）

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

Once women have traversed the turmoil of the climacteric years and reached the hormonal steady-state of the post-menopause, there is almost certainly no increase in the incidence of depression.