climacteric vs primal

climacteric

adj
  • Critical or crucial; decisive. 

  • Pertaining to any of several supposedly critical years of a person's life. 

  • Climactic. 

  • Relating to a period of physiological change during middle age; especially, menopausal. 

noun
  • The period of life that leads up to and follows the end of menstruation in women; the menopause. 

  • A critical stage or decisive point; a turning point. 

  • A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place, calculated in different ways by different authorities (often identified as every seventh or ninth year). 

primal

adj
  • Of greatest importance; primary. 

  • Being the first in time or in history. 

  • Being one of the pieces of meat initially separated from the carcass during butchering, prior to division into smaller cuts. 

verb
  • To take part in primal therapy. 

noun
  • A primal cut (of meat). 

How often have the words climacteric and primal occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )