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[pyoo-ber-tee]

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noun

the period or age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction of offspring: in common law, presumed to be 14 years in the male and 12 years in the female.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English puberte < Latin pūbertās adulthood, equivalent to pūber-, stem of pūbēs grown-up + -tās -ty²

Related forms

post·pu·ber·ty, adjective

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Precocious puberty is when these body changes happen earlier than normal.

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Precocious puberty is when these body changes happen earlier than normal.

Yes, the part about discipline and dealing with people going through puberty comes as a shock for people coming from higher.

The third relies on tracking the way men's faces actually do change through puberty.

Done with razor blades, the painful process starts at puberty and.

The genetic flaw caused him to age prematurely and die essentially of old age before completing puberty.

Puberty is the scourge of parents, teachers and schoolroom desks.

Early puberty increases risk for a lifetime of health worries, including breast cancer.

Sibling hit puberty early, too, so it was ultimately a good call.

To compensate, more boys are born than girls so there will be equal numbers of young men and women at puberty.

Usually, a katoey will begin to take female hormones around puberty to inhibit masculine growth.

They can only be activated in females after puberty.

Hatada and his team said there were no obvious abnormalities, and the mice were fertile after puberty.

The new study shows that the onset of panic attacks is closely linked to puberty.

Being a year behind in middle school you're also a year behind in puberty and that's a tough year.

For the male chimp, puberty begins at seven or eight years.

Further research needs to be conducted into the role of endocrine disruption, early puberty and obesity.

Socially, it is also confusing when some students have gone through puberty and others have not.

Well there are certain facial features which correlate with high levels of estrogen during puberty.

Other patients may develop precocious puberty or increased prolactin levels from a change in pituitary gland function.

It is a kind of twilight, a last gulp of innocence before puberty arrives.

They may also occur during the rapid growth of puberty in males and females.

Here these young boys flourish until puberty robs them of their distinctive soprano and alto sounds.

Two girls on the edge of puberty are wading a stream.

The small amount of breast tissue that exists in men may be more apparent if it swells at puberty or later in life.

She had learned before puberty that nuances mattered.

Sons leave home at puberty and attempt to join other troops where they must establish themselves among the residents.

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puberty (ˈpjuːbətɪ)

—n
	Also called: pubescence the period at the beginning of adolescence when the sex glands become functional and the secondary sexual characteristics emergeRelated: hebetic

Related: hebetic

[C14: from Latin pūbertās maturity, from pūber adult]

'pubertal

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

puberty

"the time of life in which the two sexes begin first to be acquainted" [Johnson], 1382, from O.Fr. puberté, from L. pubertatem (nom. pubertas) "age of maturity, manhood," from pubes (gen. pubertis) "adult, full-grown, manly."

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Medical Dictionary

puberty pu·ber·ty (py&oomacr;'bər-tē)
n.
The stage of adolescence in which an individual becomes physiologically capable of sexual reproduction.

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Science Dictionary

puberty

(py

'bər-tē) Pronunciation Key
The stage in the development of humans and other primates marked by the development of secondary sex characteristics, including menarche in females. In humans, puberty occurs at the onset of adolescence, between the ages of about 11 and 14 in girls and 13 and 16 in boys.

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