hotflash

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Noun[edit]

hotflash (plural hotflashes)

  1. Alternative form of hot flash
    • 1982, Stephen Hilgartner, Richard C. Bell, Rory O'Connor, Nukespeak: Nuclear Language, Visions, and Mindset, page 6:
      The only constant symptom of the radiotherapeutic menopause is the so-called 'hotflash.'
    • 1997, Janet L. Martin, Martin House, Helga Hanson's Hot Flash Handbook, →ISBN, page 40:
      Some women can count on hotflashes coming day or night as steady and as forceful as wheat coming out of the combine auger and into the truck bin during harvest.
    • 2000, Carolyn Chambers Clark, Integrating Complementary Health Procedures Into Practice, page 121:
      The hotflashes of menopause represent a Pitta imbalance (Lonsdorf et al., 1993).
    • 2007, Claudia Carlson, The Elephant House, →ISBN, page 23:
      I was a lightning rod, now cold, now hotflashes, all weather gathered into my epicenter, reality a useless thermometer on the wall.