See “Menopause” This term arose from the peculiar idea that the final menstrual period is menopause and everything after is postmenopause. That is peculiar because a perimenopausal woman doesn’t know until one year has passed without another period that that particular flow was her final one! With this year she becomes menopausal.
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Glossary
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Postmenopausal
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Luteinizing hormone
A pituitary hormone controlled by gonadotrophin releasing hormone, (GnRH) from the hypothalamus. It stimulates the ovary’s outer cells to make androgens that are then converted into estrone or estrogen.
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