"perimenopause" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From peri- (“near”) + menopause. The term has been in use since at least 1931, when it was used in Joseph Bolivar De Lee and Jacob Pearl Greenhill's book, Obstetrics: Gynecology.",
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          "ref": "2008 March 24, Robert Preidt, “Study to Assess Hormone Therapy Before Menopause”, in ABC News:",
          "text": "Researchers at eight locations across the United States plan to examine the safety and effectiveness of estrogen therapy during perimenopause, the few years just prior to menopause.",
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          "ref": "2021 April 29, Jessica Grose, “Why Is Perimenopause Still Such a Mystery?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "The scientific study of perimenopause has been going on for decades, and the cultural discussion of this mind and body shift has reached something of a new fever pitch, with several books on the subject coming out this spring and a gaggle of “femtech” companies vowing to disrupt perimenopause.",
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          "ref": "2023 October 15, Catherine Pearson, “8 Sex Myths That Experts Wish Would Go Away”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "She noted that it is also more common while women are nursing or during perimenopause, and that certain medications, including some forms of birth control, can decrease lubrication.",
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        "The physiological stage that women approaching menopause go through when, due to hormonal changes, they progress from their usual pattern of menstruation through a phase of atypical menstruation, and finally cease menstruating. Perimenopause ends when a woman has not menstruated for a year."
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          "sense": "physiological stage menstruating women go through when approaching menopause",
          "word": "périménopause"
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        "The physiological stage that women approaching menopause go through when, due to hormonal changes, they progress from their usual pattern of menstruation through a phase of atypical menstruation, and finally cease menstruating. Perimenopause ends when a woman has not menstruated for a year."
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