The conditions in which bromides are most frequently used are insomnia, epilepsy, whooping-cough, delirium tremens, asthma, migraine, laryngismus stridulus, the symptoms often attendant upon the climacteric in women, hysteria, neuralgia, certain nervous disorders of the heart, strychnine poisoning, nymphomania and spermatorrhoea.

All fruits that ripen in response to ethene show a characteristic rise in respiratory rate before the ripening phase, called a climacteric.

climacteric symptoms.

climacteric fruits, in which a marked rise in respiratory rate accompanies ripening.

climacteric syndrome: failure of effective control as measured by menopausal index.