hotflash

English

Noun

hotflash (plural hotflashes)

1. Alternative form of hot flash
   • 1982, Stephen Hilgartner, Richard C. Bell, Rory O'Connor, Nukespeak: Nuclear Language, Visions, and Mindset, page 6:

     The only constant symptom of the radiotherapeutic menopause is the so-called 'hotflash.'

   • 1997, Janet L. Martin, Martin House, Helga Hanson's Hot Flash Handbook, →ISBN, page 40:

     Some women can count on hotflashes coming day or night as steady and as forceful as wheat coming out of the combine auger and into the truck bin during harvest.

   • 2000, Carolyn Chambers Clark, Integrating Complementary Health Procedures Into Practice, page 121:

     The hotflashes of menopause represent a Pitta imbalance (Lonsdorf et al., 1993).

   • 2007, Claudia Carlson, The Elephant House, →ISBN, page 23:

     I was a lightning rod, now cold, now hotflashes, all weather gathered into my epicenter, reality a useless thermometer on the wall.