Since the menopauseher propensity has declined markedly, but it is not extinct, and she delights as much as ever in my delight.
In the same way the presence of sexual feelings after the menopause may be due to similar irritation determined by degeneration during involution of the glands.
In some cases the sexual impulse may not even appear until after the period of the menopause has been passed.
The generally prevalent opinion among women, and men for that matter, and not only of the laity but unfortunately of the medical profession as well, is that the menopause is the end of woman's sexual life.
It must be borne in mind that as soon as the wife has reached the menopause all relations must cease, because she can no longer become pregnant, and intercourse without a probable or possible pregnancy is a sin.
And she has the idea that after the menopause she can have no further attraction for her husband or for other men.
The periods between the menses become perhaps a little longer, or a little irregular, the menstrual flow becomes more and more scanty, then one or several periods may be skipped altogether, and the menopause is permanently established.
For we know that the sexual libido in women after the menopause is often and for several years stronger than before.
Some women during the years while the menopause is being established, and for some years after the menopause, experience a greatly heightened sexual desire.
As only one ovum ripens each month from the time of puberty to the time of the menopause (i.
There must be no disparity of age, for at the menopause the woman no longer seeks the sexual embrace, and if her husband be young unfaithfulness ensues.
After the cessation of the menopause any bleeding whatsoever, whether slight or profuse, should always be regarded as a danger signal which demands an immediate and thorough local examination.
According to him, the mean age of puberty at Paris was fourteen years and seven months; therefore, the average age of the menopause was forty-six and one-half years.
Arthur Johnstone's theory of the symptoms of the menopause is that the lining membrane of the uterus atrophies and becomes old cicatricial tissue, and sinks into quiet decay.
Another very frequent symptom of the menopause is distress in the region of the heart, with palpitation and shortness of breath.
The frequency with which Bright's disease is found at the time of the menopause is dependent not so much on the local physiologic changes which are taking place as on the time of life.
However, when the first period is unusually early or late, the menopause comes very early.
Tilt's cases showed that women who suffered much at the menopause had previously suffered at puberty and at the menstrual periods.
A further investigation in order to ascertain any possible relation between the age of marriage and the number of pregnancies and the sufferings of the menopause elicited the following statistics.
If the same care were taken, in the majority of cases, the dangers attending the menopause would be avoided, and the woman would be prepared to enjoy a healthy and useful post-climacteric period of life.
Their atrophy at the menopause coincides with the shrinkage of the ovaries that takes place at that period.
It is after themenopause in women that myxedema, the disease of complete degeneration of the thyroid, and of the physical and mental faculties, is most frequent.
Castration is comparable in every way with the menopause or the time of cessation of sexual life, a process that might be called self-castration.
Male menopauseis increasingly being recognized by doctors; symptoms most frequently appear when a man {108} is in his fifties.
Menopause in women can cause intermittent periods of strong anxiety, chronic nervousness, depression, irritability, lack of confidence, and headaches.
An ovary belated after the fortieth year of life atrophies, and menopause symptoms will often ensue in the course of a few months after the operation.
The retention of an ovary minimizes the menopause disturbances, and they are never so acute and prominent under these conditions as they are when an acute menopause is induced by the sudden and complete removal of all ovarian tissue.
Subsequently he advocated bilateral oöphorectomy for the purpose of inducing an artificial menopause in women with uterine fibroids.
As a matter of fact, the menopause is a physiological process which should be accomplished with as little mental and physical disturbance as accompanies the establishment of puberty.
One source of trouble in the menopause is that it comes at a time in a woman's life when she is likely to have too much leisure.
At the menopause there may be various physical or mental disturbances which are probably due more to the somewhat abrupt advent of old age, at the cessation of the childbearing part of life, rather than to the menopause itself.
It is a fact, however, that often profound disturbances coincide with the climacteric, and we know no sufficient cause for them if the menopause itself may not be deemed such.
In temperate climates this menopause occurs about the forty-fifth year, but it may come earlier or considerably later.
Menstruation is the monthly flow of bloody fluid which occurs in all healthy (non-pregnant) women from puberty to the menopause or "change of life.
This is experimental work, and is not in the same class as the case of the same woman who has just passed through her menopause and ceased to menstruate.
Women who had passed the menopause have a return flow.
Nor do I advise a young woman of forty who has not reached the menopause stage to take the operation if she is in good health, in spite of her belief that the goat-glands will enable her to remain indefinitely young.
When there is a pathologic sexual erethism from an excess of spermin or ovarin, vasectomy, castration, spaying, or the menopause cuts off this excess and the erethism disappears.
The graft is absorbed and it disappears in a year or two, but before it is absorbed it makes the onset of the surgical menopause gradual and thus prevents much suffering.
The consequent artificial menopause has a decidedly injurious effect on the woman's general physical and mental health.
Women at the menopause frequently are observed who have become neurasthenic from the irritation of waste material intoxication which is not neutralized because the ovaries are ceasing to function.
In one of my cases there was a uterine exudate, though the menopause had occurred several years before.
The frequency of the disease about the period of the menopause has been already mentioned.
The operation of removal of the ovaries to precipitate the menopause has fallen into disuse.
An unfortunate belief amongst the public that the menopause is associated with irregular bleeding and offensive discharges has prevented many women from seeking medical advice until too late.
At the menopause it shares in the general atrophy of the reproductive organs.
Both the age of puberty and that of the menopause may supervene earlier or later according to local conditions.
It ceases between forty-five and fifty years of age, and this is called the menopause or climacteric period, commonly spoken of as "the change of life.
The menopauseor change of life comes on gradually, rarely suddenly.
It occurs mostly in women, and usually appears first about the time of puberty, but the manifestations may continue until the menopause or even until old age.
In women who are excessively fat the menopause is apt to occur at an early age.
When the menopause begins, the monthly periods are less profuse, the flow is scanty.
When menstruation in a girl begins early, the menopause occurs late.
A particularly dangerous period for women with this lesion is when the blood pressure rises after the menopause and the patients become full-blooded and begin to put on weight.
This is another reason why every woman at the menopause should undergo a thorough examination and have any defect repaired, thus avoiding much of the possibility of trouble.
Puberty or the period of development extends over several years, so the menopause or period of atrophy extends over a period of from three to five years.
The menopause or change of life is the end of the child-bearing period of a woman's life.
After the menopause (change of life) they ordinarily shrink in size.
The child-bearing period commences at the age of puberty and ends with the menopause (change of life).
This is especially true of the menopause in women, and often enough of each menstrual period.
At the menopause mental difficulties to the point of insanity are witnessed, and in some cases the change is permanent.
I have in mind the wife of a physician whose menopause was delayed for some ten years as a consequence of a good-sized fibroid growth.
Women approaching the menopause already have a tendency to an increased flow though not beyond the bounds of what might be considered normal, and at this time almost any shock will produce profuse menstruation and lead to prostration.
After the menopause women are less disturbed by emotional strains and troubles of any kind than before.
Psychotherapy can do more {451} for the troubles of the menopause than any other treatment.
I have known women whose menstruation was stopped and then recurred and even became profuse reassured that this was only a symptom of the menopause when it was the first symptom of a cancer.
Neither menstruation nor the menopause is necessarily connected with more than passing discomfort, if the patient is in good health.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "menopause" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
