Hot Flash
Hot flashes (also known as hot flushes, or night sweats if they happen at night) are a symptom which may have several other causes, but which is often caused by the changing hormone levels that are characteristic of menopause.
Read more about Hot Flash: Causes and Mechanism, Presentation, Types of Hot Flashes, In Younger Women, In Men, Regional Variance
Famous quotes containing the words hot and/or flash:
“When shot, the deer seldom drops immediately, but runs sometimes for hours, the hunter in hot pursuit. This phase, known as ‘deer running,’ develops fleet runners, particularly in deer- jacking expeditions when the law is pursuing the hunters as swiftly as the hunters are pursuing the deer.”
—For the State of Maine, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“So, she will never leap up that way again, with the yellow flash of
a mountain lion’s long shoot!”
—D.H. (David Herbert)