hot flush

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Noun

hot flush (plural hot flushes)

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hot flush

Wikipedia

1. (UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) A sudden, but brief, sensation of heat over the entire body; a common symptom of the menopause.

Synonyms

• hot flash (North America)
• vasomotor symptoms

Coordinate terms

• night sweats

Translations

sudden sensation of heat, symptom of the menopause

Arabic: هِبَّة الْحَرَارَة f (hibba al-ḥarāra), وَمْضَة سَاخِنَة f (wamḍa sāḵina) Catalan: fogot (ca) m, calrada f, calorada f, sufocació f Chinese: Mandarin: 潮熱 / 潮热 (zh) (cháorè) Czech: nával horka m Dutch: opvlieger (nl) m Esperanto: varmiĝo Finnish: kuuma aalto French: bouffée de chaleur (fr) f Galician: fogaxe f German: Hitzewallung (de) f Greek: έξαψη (el) f (éxapsi) Hungarian: hőhullám (hu) Italian: vampata di calore f, vampa (it) f, caldana (it) f, scalmana f Lithuanian: karščio pylimas m Polish: uderzenie gorąca n Portuguese: onda de calor f, fogacho (pt) m, calorão m Sicilian: quadanata f Spanish: sofoco (es) m, bochorno (es) m, calma (es) f Swedish: värmevallning c, blodvallning c