climacteric 的 2 个定义
- Physiology. a period of decrease of reproductive capacity in men and women, culminating, in women, in the menopause.
- any critical period.
- a year in which important changes in health, fortune, etc., are held by some theories to occur, as one's sixty-third year .
- the period of maximum respiration in a fruit, during which it becomes fully ripened.
- Also cli·mac·ter·i·cal [klahy-mak-ter-i-kuhl]. /ˌklaɪ mækˈtɛr ɪ kəl/. critical; crucial.
climacteric 近义词
critical
turning point
climacteric 的近义词 7 个
更多climacteric例句
- I know I am at a climacteric for all men who live by their wits, so I do not despair.
- There were those who pretended that the climacteric years were fatal to political bodies as well as to individuals.
- Yet the struggle for what was accomplished appears to have created a climacteric in the doer.
- He was dizzily weak; collapse had quickly followed the climacteric excitement of being beside her, of speaking to her.
- Lorenzo the Magnificent had been ruling Florence for many years and was then at the climacteric of his fame.