Menopause
Menopause is a state of the female human body.
Woman ovaries cease to cycle progesterone and estrogen and the woman stops having menstrual periods.
The condition is considered permanent. The word “menopause” comes from the Greek words for “month” and “cessation”. It generally occurs during midlife and signals the end of the woman’s fertile period. Technically, however, a woman can not have her periods by means of a hysterectomy and may still not be in menopause until the ovaries stop ovulating.
It is, in effect, the release of a sequence of reproductive hormones that triggers the reproductive cycle and it is the cessation of this sequence that triggers menopause. If a woman has surgical loss of her ovaries, she undergoes and immediate menopause.
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