climactericとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /klʌɪmakˈtɛɹɪk/, /klʌɪˈmaktəɹɪk/

形容詞

climacteric (comparative more climacteric, superlative most climacteric)

1. Pertaining to any of several supposedly critical years of a person's life. [from 17th c.]
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 596:

     Closely parallel to the belief in unlucky days was the notion of climacteric years, those periodic dates in a man's life which were potential turning-points in his health and fortune.

2. Critical or crucial; decisive. [from 17th c.]
3. (medicine) Relating to a period of physiological change during middle age; especially, menopausal. [from 18th c.]
4. Climactic. [from 18th c.]

派生語

• postclimacteric
• preclimacteric

名詞

climacteric (複数形 climacterics)

1. A critical stage or decisive point; a turning point. [from 17th c.]
   • (Can we date this quote by Southey かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

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

   • Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since, p. 66-67.

     [H]e was in his grand climacterick, with a florid brow, and a step like youthful agility. Sigourney, Lydia.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France., p. 52.

     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.

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 または ninth year). [from 17th c.]
3. (medicine) The period of life that leads up to and follows the end of menstruation in women; the menopause. [from 18th c.]
   • 1998, Smith, Roger N J, and Studd, John W. W., The Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy, p. 8:

     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.

派生語

• grand climacteric, great climacteric

参考

• menopausal

参照

• climacteric in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.