hotflash

plural hotflashes

1. alternativeAlternative form of hot flash.

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

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

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

   1982, Stephen Hilgartner, Richard C. Bell, Rory O'Connor, Nukespeak: Nuclear Language, Visions, and Mindset, page 6

   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.

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

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

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