Definitions

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  • A prefix used to signify around, by, near, over, beyond, or to give an intensive sense

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  • prefix around or surrounding:
  • prefix near:

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek περί (peri, "about, around").

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Examples

  • After African americans, the next highest groups were Latinas at 35.4 percent, white women at 31.2 percent, and Chinese-Americans at 20.5 percent.8 In a separate study of 841 white women with physical disabilities in peri- and postmenopause across the United States, 64.9 percent reported having hot flashes.9

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006

  • Levels seem to be higher in some peri- and postmenopausal women who experience hot flashes.7

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006

  • Levels seem to be higher in some peri- and postmenopausal women who experience hot flashes.7

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006

  • Levels seem to be higher in some peri- and postmenopausal women who experience hot flashes.7

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006

  • After African americans, the next highest groups were Latinas at 35.4 percent, white women at 31.2 percent, and Chinese-Americans at 20.5 percent.8 In a separate study of 841 white women with physical disabilities in peri- and postmenopause across the United States, 64.9 percent reported having hot flashes.9

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006

  • After African americans, the next highest groups were Latinas at 35.4 percent, white women at 31.2 percent, and Chinese-Americans at 20.5 percent.8 In a separate study of 841 white women with physical disabilities in peri- and postmenopause across the United States, 64.9 percent reported having hot flashes.9

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006

  • Levels seem to be higher in some peri- and postmenopausal women who experience hot flashes.7

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006

  • After African americans, the next highest groups were Latinas at 35.4 percent, white women at 31.2 percent, and Chinese-Americans at 20.5 percent.8 In a separate study of 841 white women with physical disabilities in peri- and postmenopause across the United States, 64.9 percent reported having hot flashes.9

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006

  • This illness may be almost exclusively the province of peri- and postmenopausal women because of the rapid drop in estrogen production that affects the small blood vessels.

    Healing the Female Heart Elizabeth Ross 1996

  • This illness may be almost exclusively the province of peri- and postmenopausal women because of the rapid drop in estrogen production that affects the small blood vessels.

    Healing the Female Heart Elizabeth Ross 1996

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