(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.
Pubescence
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being pubescent, or of having arrived at puberty.
(n.) A covering of soft short hairs, or down, as one some plants and insects; also, the state of being so covered.
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.