Usually means: Significant life changes, often hormonal.
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  1. climacterics: Merriam-Webster
  2. climacterics: Collins English Dictionary
  3. climacterics: Vocabulary.com
  4. climacterics: Wiktionary
  5. climacterics: Dictionary.com
  6. climacterics: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. climacterics: Legal dictionary

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  1. climacterics: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. climacterics: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. climacterics: Medical dictionary

(Note: See climacteric as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (climacteric)

adjective:  Pertaining to any of several supposedly critical years of a person's life.
adjective:  Critical or crucial; decisive.
adjective:  (medicine) Relating to a period of physiological change during middle age; especially, menopausal.
adjective:  Climactic.
noun:  A critical stage or decisive point; a turning point.
noun:  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 or ninth year).
noun:  (medicine) The period of life that leads up to and follows the end of menstruation in women; the menopause.
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