Menopause
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Menopause means the natural and permanent stopping of the monthly female reproductive cycles. The word is commonly used in regard to human females, where menopause happens more or less in midlife. Menopause in women cannot however simply be defined as the permanent "stopping of the monthly periods", because in reality what is happening to the uterus is quite secondary to the process Menopause is triggered by the faltering, shutting down, or surgical removal of the ovaries, which are a part of the body's endocrine system of hormone production.
Clinically speaking, menopause is a date: for those women who still have a uterus, menopause is defined as the day after a woman's final period finishes.
As the body struggles to adapt to the rapidly changing levels of natural hormones, a number of symptoms appear, including vasomotor symptoms such as hot flashes and palpitations, psychological symptoms such as depression, anxiety, irritability, mood swings and lack of concentration, and atrophic symptoms such as vaginal dryness and urgency of urination. Together with these symptoms, the average woman also has increasingly erratic menstrual periods.