(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.