postmenopauseadj.n.
/pəʊs(t)ˈmɛnə(ʊ)pɔːz/, U.S. /poʊs(t)ˈmɛnəˌpɔz/, /poʊs(t)ˈmɛnəˌpɑz/ A. adj.
Occurring after the menopause, postmenopausal.
ΚΠ
1905 Medical News (N.Y.) 14 Jan. 85/2 Post menopause bleeding must be looked upon..with some suspicion of the presence of cancer.
1925 Practitioner July 43 Post-menopause vulvitis is thus set up.
1964 Science 14 Aug. 717/1 The postmenopause cancer subjects do not differ so noticeably from the controls in these respects.
1993 Maturitas 17 63 The premenopause and postmenopause groups did not differ in their complaints about any symptom, including hot flushes.
B. n.
The period of a woman's life following the menopause.
ΚΠ
1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 23 Sept. 826/1 Feminine psychology from puberty through the post-menopause.
1975 Acta Endocrinologica 80 262 Levels of plasma PRL rose with puberty and decreased during post-menopause and in elderly men.
1991 G. Greer Change iii. 76 Most of us would shudder at the thought of being co-opted to the zenana or the harem in the interests of a happy post-menopause.
2001 Family Planning Perspectives 33 236/1 Participants were divided into..four specific menopausal categories (surgical amenorrhea, natural postmenopause, perimenopause and premenopause).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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