What's the difference between childhood and girlhood?
Childhood
Definition:
(n.) The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.
(n.) Children, taken collectively.
(n.) The commencement; the first period.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is followed by rapid neurobehavioral deterioration in late infancy or early childhood, a developmental arrest, plateauing, and then either a course of retarded development or continued deterioration.
(2) A number of recurring chromosomal abnormalities have been identified in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
(3) The authors examined an eye obtained post-mortem from a patient with chronic granulomatous disease of childhood and clinically apparent chorioretinal scars.
(4) Subjects who reported incidents of childhood sexual exploitation had lower levels of self-esteem and higher levels of depression than the comparison group.
(5) Detailed treatment data were obtained for 23 cases and 89 matched controls from the childhood cancer cohort.
(6) This preliminary study compared the level of ego development, as measured by Loevinger's Washington University Sentence Completion Test (SCT), of 30 women with histories of childhood sexual victimization, and 30 women with no history of abuse.
(7) Her story is an incredible tale of triumph over tragedy: a tormented childhood during China's Cultural Revolution, detention and forced exile after exposing female infanticide – then glittering success as the head of a major US technology firm.
(8) The differentiation of monocytes was evaluated quantitatively by electron microscopy and was analyzed in relation to the clinical features of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL).
(9) A small number of individuals operated during adolescence had also a shorter depth of the maxilla similarly as patients operated upon during early childhood.
(10) Two cases of idiopathic myelofibrosis of childhood were treated with intravenous methylprednisolone.
(11) On the grounds of the reported paediatric cases, the erudition in childhood is compared with the more common form in the adult, and is found to be much less linked with diabetes mellitus and to have a far better prognosis, with practically no mortality.
(12) Nickname: SuperSarko the Omnipresident Quote: "What made me who I am now is the sum of all the humiliations suffered during childhood."
(13) This dose is safe and efficient in the maintenance treatment of childhood asthma.
(14) Records collected during childhood and coded prior to knowledge of adult behavior provided information about the childhood homes of 201 men.
(15) Childhood migraine is probably commoner than this study indicates.
(16) In contrast, the number of distressful childhood experiences reported was generally unrelated to empathy scores.
(17) Childhood headache attacks resulted to be less frequent, less severe and with a shorter duration than in adult patients.
(18) After the event, McCray praised the duchess on Twitter for her passion on issues of mental health and early childhood development, saying “her warmth and passion for the cause was infectious”.
(19) In the multivariate logistic analysis the most informative clinical, social, and psychosocial predictors were, in rank order: many admissions to mental hospitals, death or divorce of parent in childhood, heavy smoking, short duration of the mental disorder diagnosed as affective, not married, never economically active, and early onset of the affective disorder.
(20) A total of 5319 cases of primary cancer in childhood were followed until patient death or the end of 1980, and the number of secondary tumors were observed, specifying on diagnosis, age, sex, and time since first tumor diagnosis.
Girlhood
Definition:
(n.) State or time of being a girl.
Example Sentences:
(1) Circumcision in Maasai culture marks the transition from girlhood to womanhood, so in order to encourage people to move away from female genital cutting we have developed an alternative rite of passage, in which the girl experiences all the elements of the ceremony but is not cut.
(2) As is often the way in teenage friendships, it's not clear whether Cassandra is friend or foe, and the dynamic between the two girls is the central focus of a sensitive but uncompromising film about girlhood, female sexuality and trust.
(3) The Marakwet have long practised FGM to mark transition from girlhood to adulthood.
(4) In girlhood, starkly-divided toy aisles teach us that engineering, electronics and science toys are for boys, that the futures for which we should be preparing are those of the Barbie Dream House variety.
(5) It is concluded that the cause of chronic cor pulmonale in women in Delhi was damage to the lungs from exposure to smoky cooking fuels from girlhood onwards, followed by repeated chest infections.
(6) Dr Rosie Campbell, a politics academic from Birkbeck University, told the Huffington Post she could only hope it was an accident given worries about the “pinkification of girlhood”.
(7) But as Liang left her girlhood behind and stepped across the family threshold, she was embarking on a lifelong commitment to remain single.
(8) Their clothes are the rewards of immaculate girlhood: dresses of taffeta and velvet with lace collars, petticoats, ankle straps, pocketbooks and initialled handkerchiefs, seasonal gloves of cotton and kid, matching coats and muffs.
(9) Our friends were there, laughing and shouting: ‘It’s about time they honoured you!’” Topolansky’s girlhood nickname was la Flaca (the skinny one) but the Tupamaros called her la Tronca (the log) because she was so tough.
(10) On the other side of the country, Kendell has settled into San Francisco, and is a zealous 49ers fan – though her girlhood love of the Rams is now rekindled.
(11) We’re coming, and the neighbourhood is going The bower of girlhood.
(12) The speedy transience of girlhood alongside what are often short-term girl-empowerment interventions also needs acknowledgment.
(13) I can understand how Portman relates to Molly as a woman at the crossroads of girlhood and adulthood (even now she still looks almost childlike).
(14) How can we talk about protecting the girlhood, while transgender girls still dread going to a public bathroom?