onset of puberty

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puberty
noun[U]
uk
/ˈpjuː.bə.ti/
us
/ˈpjuː.bɚ.t̬i/
the stage in people's lives when they develop from a child into an adult because of changes in their body that make them able to ...
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Others include delayedonsetofpuberty, neurological and intellectual deficits, and an increased frequency of extra-cardiac abnormalities.
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Clearly, the use of mathematical growth models to identify physiological thresholds such asonsetofpubertydoes not seem to be indicated.
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Accordingly, if that parameter cannot be freely estimated, there is no point in deriving a relationship betweenonsetofpubertyand a fixed inflection point.
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These results suggest that theonsetofpubertyhas a marked effect on the development of health behaviours.
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Brody (1945) considered that the inflection point of the growth curve coincides with theonsetofpuberty.
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Thus, a nutritional treatment that advances age atonsetofpubertymay have this effect only in a genetic line expressing high growth potential.
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There is no suggestion that their biological gender switches with theonsetofpuberty, only the formal trappings thereof.
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In this model, lateonsetofpubertymay lead to a failure to shut down the synaptic pruning process associated with puberty.
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This is a process that takes on additional import following theonsetofpuberty.
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These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that growing female sheep must reach a certain minimum level of body fatness before theonsetofpuberty.
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It could of course be argued that inflection point is a parameter, and as such it is an individual trait just like theonsetofpuberty.
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Current results provide evidence thatonsetofpubertyoccurs much later than the inflection point of the growth curve, suggesting effects of body composition and minimum weight threshold.
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Current theory posits that, biologically,onsetofpubertymust have an allometric relationship with mature size.
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Scovel (1988) suggested that a critical period for speech learning may result from a loss of cortical plasticity near theonsetofpuberty.
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It is concluded that growth modelling per se cannot be used to inferonsetofpuberty, and that endocrine thresholds do not necessarily demarcate distinct phases of the growth curve.
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Before puberty priority had been given to the attachment relationship with the primary caregiver; following theonsetofpubertythere is a shift to peers and eventually romantic partners.
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A study systematically examining the relationship between growth curve parameters and the age atonsetofpubertyas determined by endocrine parameters seems to be lacking.
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We also report a significant increase of cortisol levels with age, with the largest change occurring between 10 and 12 years of age, which corresponds to theonsetofpuberty.
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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 incomplete growth spurt afteronsetofpuberty.
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