See also:

• CLIMACTERIC (from the Gr. KAupaKr'Jp, the rung or step of a aXiµaE or ladder)

CLIMACTERIC (from the Gr. KAupaKr'Jp, the See also:

• RUNG

rung or step of a aXiµaE or See also:

• LADDER, (0. Eng. hlaeder; of Teutonic origin, cf. Dutch leer, Ger. Leiter; the ultimate origin is in the root seen in " lean," Or. KNiµat)

ladder)  , a See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period in human See also:

• LIFE

life; in a medical sense, the period known as the " See also:

• CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change of life," marked in See also:

• WOMEN

women by the menopause . Certain ages, especially those which are multiples of seven or nine, have been superstitiously regarded as particularly critical; thus the sixty-third and the eighty-first See also:

• YEAR

year of life have been called the " See also:

• GRAND

grand See also:

• CLIMACTERIC (from the Gr. KAupaKr'Jp, the rung or step of a aXiµaE or ladder)

climacteric." The word is also used, generally, of any turning-point in the See also:

• HISTORY

history of a nation, a career or the like .