hot flush

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

hot flush (plural hot flushes)

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 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
• Swedish: värmevallning c, blodvallning c