pubarche
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[edit]pubarche (uncountable)
- The first appearance of pubic hair in a child.
- Coordinate terms: adrenarche, menarche
- 2004, Ora Hirsch Pescovitz, Erica A. Eugster, Pediatric Endocrinology: Mechanisms, Manifestations, and Management[1], Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 319:
- Premature adrenarche should be distinguished from premature pubarche (early onset of sexual hair) even though adrenarche commonly causes pubarche.