premenopausal

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Etymology

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pre- +‎ menopausal

Adjective

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premenopausal (not comparable)

  1. (medicine) Having not yet undergone menopause
    • 2007 April 24, Nicholas Bakalar, “Breast Cancer Not Linked to Abortion, Study Says”, in New York Times[1]:
      The women were 29 to 46 years old at the beginning of the study in 1993, and 93 percent were premenopausal.