Usually means: Cessation of menstrual cycles permanently.
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  1. menopause: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. menopause: Merriam-Webster
  3. menopause: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. menopause: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. menopause: Collins English Dictionary
  6. menopause: Vocabulary.com
  7. Menopause, menopause: Wordnik
  8. menopause: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. menopause: Wiktionary
  10. menopause: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. menopause: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. menopause: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. menopause: Dictionary.com
  14. menopause: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. menopause: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Menopause (journal), Menopause: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Menopause: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. menopause: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. menopause: Rhymezone
  20. Menopause (f), menopause: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. menopause: FreeDictionary.org
  22. menopause: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. menopause: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. menopause: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. menopause: Encyclopedia

Medicine (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. menopause: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Menopause: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Menopause: Merck Manuals
  7. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Menopause: Breast Cancer Glossary of Medical Terms
  9. Menopause: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  10. menopause: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  11. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  12. menopause: Medical dictionary
  13. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  14. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  15. Menopause: Drug Medical Dictionary
  16. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See menopausal as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The period in a woman's life when menstruation becomes irregular and less frequent before eventually stopping altogether, usually accompanied by a range of unpleasant symptoms; the period spanning perimenopause up to postmenopause.
noun:  The final menstrual period of a woman after which ovulation no longer occurs.

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