(a.) Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.
(n.) A youth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The main finding of this study is that diabetic adolescents with a high erythrocyte Na,Li countertransport rate have an arterial pressure significantly higher than patients with normal Na,Li countertransport fluxes.
(2) The purpose of the present study was to report on remaining teeth and periodontal conditions in a population of 200 adolescent and adult Vietnamese refugees.
(3) More research and a national policy to provide optimal nutrition for all pregnant women, including the adolescent, are needed.
(4) The evidence suggests that by the age of 15 years many adolescents show a reliable level of competence in metacognitive understanding of decision-making, creative problem-solving, correctness of choice, and commitment to a course of action.
(5) Descriptive features of the syndrome in children, adults and adolescents are given based on the respective work of Pine, Masterson and Kernberg.
(6) All subjects showed a period of fetishistic arousal to women's clothes during adolescence.
(7) Two cases of posterior lumbar vertebral rim fracture and associated disc protrusion in adolescents are presented.
(8) Problems associated with school-based clinics include vehement opposition to sex education, financing, and the sheer magnitude of the adolescents' health needs.
(9) The types, frequency, and clinical features of neoplasms encountered in the perinatal period are markedly different from those observed in older children and adolescents.
(10) One hundred and ninety-nine children aged 7-14 and 177 adolescents in remission and minimal manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were examined before and after fangotherapy with allowance for activity of the process, age-related reactivity.
(11) Psychological well-being and the level of psychological autonomy were studied in a group of 109 Jewish late adolescents in the USSR.
(12) Current recommendations regarding contraception in patients with diabetes are not appropriate for the adolescent population and therefore tend to support this phenomenon rather than relieve it.
(13) Both Types I and II collagen are important constituents of the affected tissues, and thus defective collagens are reasonable candidates for the primary abnormality in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS).
(14) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
(15) There is a gradual loosening of the adolescent's emotional dependence on her parents and a transfer of dependency ties to peers.
(16) This study provides strong and unexpected evidence that one admission to hospital of more than a week's duration or repeated admissions before the age of five years (in particular between six months and four years) are associated with an increased risk of behaviour disturbance and poor reading in adolescence.
(17) Physicians and adolescents differed significantly in the ratings of all but one scale, weight.
(18) The mothers of 87 male and female adolescents accepted at a counseling agency described their offspring by completing the Institute of Juvenile Research Behavior Checklist.
(19) Eight adolescents were followed 3-8 years after primary suture of a substance rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament.
(20) We conclude that, whereas an identical protocol of acute ND had no significant effects on diaphragm muscle structure and function in adult rats, adolescent animals exhibit significantly less nutritional reserve.
Pubescent
Definition:
(a.) Arrived at puberty.
(a.) Covered with pubescence, or fine short hairs, as certain insects, and the leaves of some plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast to height, however, a short term formula for values from birth to near pubescence cannot be applied due to the vivid head growth in the postnatal phase.
(2) Williams said: "There is no doubt in my mind that you are a paedophile who has for some time harboured sexual and morbid fantasies about young girls, storing on your laptop not only images of pre-pubescent and pubescent girls, but foul pornography of the gross sexual abuse of young children."
(3) A stabilization of proportions of spondylometric features as well as of those and the height of the body takes place in the period of pubescence.
(4) on plasma LH, FSH and testosterone was examined in 19 normal pubescent and prepubescent boys.
(5) In terms of growth rate the following five age periods were identified in the predefinitive stage of postnatal ontogenesis: childhood--from birth to 9 months of age, adolescence--from 9 months to 3 years, accelerated growth or pubescence--from 3 to 4.5 years, growth completion--from 4.5 to 7-8 years, and physiological maturity (definitive stage)--over 8 years of age.
(6) Even after pubescence the angle is not constant but the changes are much smaller.
(7) Prepubescent and pubescent children deviate considerably in fat-free body composition from the adult reference male, and this has lead investigators to overestimate body fatness in this population using conventional body composition formulas.
(8) Although pubescents readily form cohesive groups, the emotional stress for the group therapists is intense and many therapists are reluctant to take on such groups.
(9) A small, but significant, rise in plasma LH level occurs at pubescence in both boys and girls.
(10) After adjusting for duration of diabetes and sex, the relative odds of having retinopathy in the postpubescent group relative to the prepubescent or pubescent groups was 4.8 (95% confidence interval: 1.5 to 15.3).
(11) In 4 pubescent children with growth retardation and need for maintenance prednisone, accelerated growth occurred following growth hormone administration for 3-6 months.
(12) 47 pubescent rats were inserted with IUDs and then impregnated.
(13) They assessed the criteria or normal female pubescence, liminal pubescence and hirsutism in the two populations.
(14) Exposure of pubescent female rats to testosterone during the period from 35 to 50 days of age resulted in a significant increase in testosterone sensitivity when tested at 90 days of age, suggesting that pubertal exposure to androgen is important for the expression of testosterone responsivity in adulthood.
(15) Complete casts of the hypophyseal and hypothalamic blood vascular beds of newborn, pubescent, adult and aged rats were produced by infusion of low viscosity methacrylate media, dissected under a binocular light microscope, and observed with a scanning electron microscope.
(16) We have studied the estrogenic action of zeranol and have compared it to the action of estradiol on the uterus--the vagina, the mammary gland and the pituitary gland of the pre-pubescent, castrated female before the opening of the vagina.
(17) The right occipital lobe in a series of pubescent monkeys was exposed to 3500 rads of orthovoltage radiation in a single dose.
(18) Although localization patterns were similar, the total recovery of infused mammary node cells in the six nodes examined was consistently higher in lactating than in pubescent pigs.
(19) Pubescence in female rats was associated with an increase in differentiated preadipocytes and in fat cell number with enlargement of the fat depots in the perirenal, parametrial, and the subcutaneous dorsal and femoral regions.
(20) Thus, ovarian factors influence the pubescence-associated regional preadipocyte differentiation and conversion to adipocytes.