Hot Flashes

**Semantic type:** Sign or Symptom

**Definition:** A temporary feeling of intense body warmth, flushing, sometimes accompanied by sweating. A common, symptom of menopause; other conditions that can produce hot flushes include antidepressants and drugs blocking the effect of estrogens, carcinoid tumors and a sensitivity to sulfites or other food additives.

**Synonyms:** - Hot Flash - Hot Flashes/Flushes - Hot flashes - hot flash