(n.) A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place in the constitution. The critical periods are thought by some to be the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9; to which others add the 81st year.
(n.) Any critical period.
Example Sentences:
(1) The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the relationship between climacteric status and health symptoms across age cohorts in 522 African American women aged 25-75.
(2) These data suggested that estrogen may be able to control the function of the autonomic nervous system in climacteric woman.
(3) Researchers have failed to distinguish between the spontaneous symptoms of women subject to climacteric disturbances and the sensations others admit to on questioning.
(4) The TAA component of CaCx common for all clinical stages, irrespective of climacteric states, was partially purified by subjecting postmeno CaCx, Stage II to gel filtration on Sephadex G-200.
(5) Considering in detail the results some immediate clinical and metabolic consequences come out: namely, want of Ca is prevailing in women and just in the critical age classes (20-40 and 50-59 years, that is in fertile and climacteric ages).
(6) Although the evidence is not conclusive, overall many sexual changes seem to occur in the climacteric years.
(7) The statement that the human female climacteric represents a pathologic rather than a physiologic state should not generate antagonistic counter-arguments; rather, it should be recognized as a challenge for the identification, prediction, and prevention of organic disease in the woman during the climacteric and after.
(8) It is argued that this differential recovery of fructose 2,6-bisphosphate undermines claims that the amount of this compound increases at the climacteric.
(9) It has also been shown that too low doses of ERT are able to exert therapeutical effects on some climacteric symptoms but not on bone and compounds exerting synergic actions with ERT on bone without effects on other organs could be useful.
(10) Bone mass, calcium and lipid metabolism, climacteric symptoms, bleeding, blood pressure, and weight changes were studied in 62 healthy postmenopausal women at 3-month intervals throughout 2 years of treatment with continuous estradiol valerate (2 mg) plus cyproterone acetate (1 mg), sequential estradiol valerate (2 mg) plus levonorgestrel (75 micrograms), or placebo.
(11) Risk factors (obesity, hypertension, diabetes mellitus) for endometrial cancer were found in 38% of MB and in 20% of climacteric metrorrhagia.
(12) Of climacteric disturbances should be spoken only after menopause.
(13) Climacteric symptoms and hot flushes were significantly reduced in both hormone groups compared with the placebo group.
(14) The endocrinological changes of the climacteric have been defined by studying the concentrations of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), luteinising hormone (LH), androstenedione, testosterone, oestrone, and oestradiol in 60 normal postmenopausal women of different menopausal ages.
(15) In climacteric syndrome in a narrow sense (i.e., dysautonomic type), each complaint may also have its specific endocrinological cause.
(16) Similarly, attitudes to the climacteric vary across cultural origins, especially with regard to husband-wife relationships.
(17) Significant changes in carbon dioxide production and oxygen consumption were still evident well into the climacteric.
(18) The selection criterion was the evidence of risk factors for endometrial carcinoma, climacteric bleedings (obesity, late menopause, high blood pressure, diabetes), or endometriotropic estrogen therapy in the postmenopause.
(19) This can be probably explained for the genital district by the hyperestrogenic situation that the climacteric woman experiences and by the promoting effect that estrogens have on the neoplastic growth.
(20) Our data imply that climacteric symptoms are not accompanied by changes in the production of prostacyclin and thromboxane A2.
(v. i.) A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness.
(v. i.) The highest point; the greatest degree.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because of the relatively high levels of endogenous TH in tadpoles during climax, the use of an in vivo saturation assay employing [125I]T3 was not feasible.
(2) Albuquerque is awash with speculation over how the show will climax today.
(3) B is the predominant glucocorticoid in tadpole plasma before climax.
(4) A series of misadventures and misunderstandings lead him to Calgary, where the whole Messiah mix-up reaches its painful, and tuneful, climax.
(5) After allogeneic grafting (CAP leads to LEW; RtH-1-incompatible) the non-specific-healing reaction progressed into a second phase, namely the specific reaction: increasing infiltration of the host cornea and the graft with small lymphocytes, blast cells and macrophages, directly followed by severe vascularization, reaching its climax about the 14th day.
(6) Quantitative and morphological data were obtained on developing olfactory axons in the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, during late premetamorphosis (stages 48-54), prometamorphosis (stages 55-57), and halfway through metamorphic climax (stages 58-62).
(7) The vote provided the climax to a year of debate in which the bill at times seemed on the verge of passage and at others about to be scrapped.
(8) Deliberately structured like a western, American Sniper’s climax pits Kyle against Mustafa, an Iraqi sniper who does not utter a single word throughout the entire film.
(9) The general nerve terminal morphology and pattern of accumulation of acetylcholine receptors at cutaneous pectoris neuromuscular junctions were similar to those of the adult throughout metamorphic climax except that they still contained more than one motor axon.
(10) In a recent Facebook post, he called The Putin Interviews “a four-hour audacious climax to my strange life as an American film-maker”.
(11) In contrast, tadpoles allowed to survive up to 6 months showed no loss of motoneurons if they did not enter metamorphic climax.
(12) A renal action of prolactin during climax may facilitate metamorphosis.
(13) The characteristics of the nuclear T3 receptors present in red blood cells (RBCs) of Rana catesbeiana tadpoles undergoing metamorphic climax have been investigated with a T3 saturation technique.
(14) In the sort of flourish that was Gordon Brown's trademark at the end of his budgets, Osborne announced the fuel duty cut at the climax of a 56-minute speech built around the theme of boosting growth and rebalancing the economy.
(15) The summit will conduct a post-mortem on the Greek debacle, which climaxed at the weekend with agreement on the first ever bailout of a euro country, costing €110bn over three years for the eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund.
(16) Ted Cruz reaches the dramatic climax of his pitch to voters with a flourish that is as subtle as it is selfless.
(17) Thus, a transitory increase in plasma tetranectin was observed in early puberty, reaching its climax about the age of 11 to 12 in girls and 14 to 15 in boys.
(18) Using selected cDNAs, RNA dot blot analysis of liver mRNA from tadpoles at different stages of metamorphosis showed that the level of one thyroid hormone-enhanced mRNA increased during late prometamorphosis and metamorphic climax.
(19) However, uptake exhibited a rapid peak during early climax (stage II), before maximum concentrations of thyroid hormones were observed.
(20) Furthermore, since clonidine affects the Type 3 behavior associated with tucking, but not the somewhat similar coordinated behavior involved in hatching and emergence from the shell (climax), we propose that this later behavior pattern be given a new name, Type 4 motility.