growth spurt
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgrowthandspurt
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growth
noun
uk/ɡrəʊθ/us/ɡroʊθ/
The growth of a person, animal, or plant is its process of increasing ...
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spurt
noun[C]
uk/spɜːt/us/spɝːt/
a sudden and short period of increased activity, effort, ...
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(Definition ofgrowthandspurtfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofgrowth spurt
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The strongestgrowthspurtwas in the 1960s.
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The malegrowthspurtalso begins later, accelerates more slowly, and lasts longer before the epiphyses fuse.
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He began his career playing the point guard position until he underwent a six-inchgrowthspurtlate in his career.
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In the 1970s, a secondgrowthspurtbegan.
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After that it makes agrowthspurt, especially if there is no tree canopy above it.
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The male adolescentgrowthspurtin lean body mass is paralleled by a similargrowthspurtin left ventricular volume.
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First, there is evidence from animal studies that severe malnutrition during the braingrowthspurtresults in deficits and distortions in the adult brain.
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These claims received further support from a re-test of the second group that was administered after they showed a vocabularygrowthspurt.
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However, both diameter and height growth slowed considerably after this initialgrowthspurt.
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The braingrowthspurtspans from the end of prenatal life through the end of infancy, a time period when the right hemisphere is rapidly expanding.
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This advance occurs around the same time as we see the vocabularygrowthspurt, and panel 5 illustrates typical utterances found in the speech of children nearing their second birthday.
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There is evidence that the braingrowthspurtin the human starts in the last 3 months of pregnancy and lasts till the end of the second year.
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Nor is it known whether a modest degree of continuing impairment of growth during childhood will be magnified by a delayed or incompletegrowthspurtafter onset of puberty.
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Permanent neurological deficits can result from an insult to the brain during thegrowthspurt.
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In normal development this representation should adapt as the body goes through its pubertalgrowthspurt.
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His adolescentgrowthspurtled to chronic pain in his knees.
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The most common occurrence for pectus carinatum seems to be in the 11-14 year old pubertal male undergoing agrowthspurt.
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Following an adolescentgrowthspurt, repeated stress from contraction of the quadriceps is transmitted through the patellar tendon to the immature tibial tuberosity.
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