(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.
Puberty
Definition:
(n.) The earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females.
(n.) The period when a plant first bears flowers.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results do not support the view that in the rat pheromones from adult males enhance puberty in females, contrary to what is known to happen in the mouse.
(2) In contrast, idiopathic GH deficient girls have an onset of puberty and PHV nearer to a normal chronological age and at an early bone age.
(3) We report the treatment of 44 boys with constitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP) at a mean chronological age of 14.3 years (range, 12.4-17.1) and bone age of 12.1 years (range, 9.1-15.0).
(4) Four patients entered puberty during the first year of treatment.
(5) In girls and boys, the mean concentration of both gonadotropins increased with advancing puberty.
(6) Age at puberty (onset of cyclic progesterone concentrations) was greatest in heifers fed Diet 1 and lowest in heifers fed Diet 5.
(7) A 17-year-old boy who had been treated for insulin-dependent diabetes since age 2, and for coeliac disease since age 6, presented a major growth retardation (-6 SD), a delayed puberty and a hepatomegaly with excessive glycogen storage (Mauriac's syndrome).
(8) Adrenal androgens appear to be the major determinants of sebaceous gland activity during the prepubertal period and to be additive to another hormone or hormones during puberty.
(9) An investigation of the tissue distribution of CMB-2 showed that the puberty, CMB-2 is secreted into the rete testis and accumulates in the epididymis in high concentration.
(10) Seventeen of them showed a constitutional delay in growth and puberty, twenty-three suffered from growth-hormone deficiency (GHD) and eight had a suspected GHD as a result of pharmacological tests.
(11) This paper describes a case with symptomless enlarged submandibular glands, the bioptic findings which were suggesting the diagnosis of sialadenosis, the verification of the underlying disorder by child psychiatry, and the recuperation of the boy during puberty.
(12) Most of what is understood about precocious puberty in boys comes from boys with precocious puberty secondary to poorly controlled CAH.
(13) These and other data suggest that the sensitivity of the hypothalamic-pituitary "gonadostat" decreases at the onset of puberty.
(14) One possible explanation is that the bacteria associated with periodontal diseases cannot become established in great numbers prior to puberty.
(15) However, following puberty (i.e., by 60 days of age), the response in male rats was significantly greater than that observed in female rats.
(16) The development of signs of puberty and a growth spurt appearing at this late age clearly show the potential for maturation and growth once malnutrition is corrected.
(17) The progress of 108 children who were identified by the vision screening programme in school as having defective vision (excluding those with puberty onset myopia) was reviewed.
(18) Inhibin levels were high in prepubertal lambs (approximately 375 pM), but these levels were not sustained near the time of puberty (approximately 180 pM).
(19) Breast development is usually the first event of puberty and menarche virtually the last.
(20) It is hypothesized here that puberty in the rat is the consequence of the appearance of free, and therefore physiologically active, estrogen in the circulation.