Menopausal period in women. Sometimes used to refer to the corresponding age period in men. Also called involutional period.
The physical and mental changes occurring at the termination of the reproductive years in the female.
Time in a woman’s Life associated with changes in her endocrine system and other body systems often accompanied by emotional changes; it ends with menopause, when reproductive capability ceases; colloquially called change of life.
This was a word originally applied to the end of certain epochs or stages in the life of an individual, at which some great change was supposed to take place.
The menopause (i.e., the period that marks cessation of a woman’s reproductive ability) in women; the corresponding period of diminished sexual arousal and activity in males.
The gradual slowing down of hormone production that takes place during middle adulthood.