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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 509 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLIMACTERIC (from the Gr. KAupaKr'Jp, the See also:rung or step of a aXiµaE or See also:ladder) , a See also:critical See also:period in human See also:life; in a medical sense, the period known as the " See also:change of life," marked in See also: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 of life have been called the " See also:grand climacteric." The word is also used, generally, of any turning-point in the See also:history of a nation, a career or the like.

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