Citations:peripubescent

English citations of peripubescent

• 1920: Paul Godin [aut.] and Samuel L. Eby [tr.], Growth During School Age: Its Application to Education, page 36 (R. G. Badger)

  But it is acknowledged that the term, adolescence, is applicable to the last phase of childhood, to the peripubescent phase, and that it denotes especially the last relatively insignificant thrust of the lengthening of the body by the lower limbs.

• 1982: Ethology and Sociobiology, volumes 3–4, page 63 (Elsevier North-Holland, Inc.)

  However, it appears that the age-specific rates of child abuse form a peculiar, trimodal distribution with peaks for infants, two-year olds, and peripubescent children (cf. Lenington, 1981, Figs. 1–3).

• 1990: John Money, M. E. Perry, and Herman Musaph [eds.], Childhood and Adolescent Sexology, volume 7, page 383 (Elsevier; →ISBN, →ISBN)

  A prepubescent or peripubescent individual may engage in sexual rehearsal activities with a prepubescent child without this providing any evidence for the presence of pedophilia.

• 1997: C. S. Potten, Stem Cells, page 153 (Elsevier; →ISBN, →ISBN)

  In the human mammary gland the globular structures at the ductal termini of peripubescent, 13-year-old girls have a similar histological appearance to TEBs in rodents (Figure 3A).

• 2001: Robert M. Sapolsky, A Primate’s Memoir: A Neuroscientist’s Unconventional Life Among the Baboons, page 98 (Simon & Schuster; →ISBN, →ISBN)

  Just Rachel and Isaac and all the peripubescent young things he was screwing around with.

• 2004: Ray Lannom Watts and William C. Koller, Movement Disorders: Neurologic Principles & Practice, page 640 (McGraw-Hill Professional; →ISBN, →ISBN)

  The vast majority of patients are between 5 and 15 years of age at first occurrence; girls are affected about twice as frequently as boys, especially in the peripubescent ages, suggesting a role for sex hormones in this disorder.⁹

• 2005: Rupal Shah, General Practice: The Clinical Survival Guide, page 197 (PasTest Ltd; →ISBN, →ISBN)

  Slipped upper femoral epiphysis (SUFE) is also a problem of young boys. The child is usually peripubescent (11–14 years) and is classically overweight and delayed in their sexual development.

• 2007: Zachary Child, Basic Orthopedic Exams, page 190 (Wolters Kluwer Health; →ISBN, →ISBN)

  The Klein’s line is a radiologic examination for pain in external rotation and flexion, usually in obese peripubescent children (median age, 12 years).