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Precocious puberty Precocious puberty
Precocious puberty Definition Precocious puberty is sexual development before the age of eight in girls, and age 10 in boys. Description Precocious pubertyoften begins before age eight in girls, triggering the development of breasts and hair under the arms and in the... Read more
Everything But The Girl Everything But The Girl
Everything But The Girl Electronica duo For the Record… Signed with Blanco Y Negro Major Turning Point Other Pursuits Selected discography Sources In the two decades that Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt have been writing and recording music together as Everything But The Girl (EBTG),... Read more
adolescence adolescence
adolescence time of life from onset of puberty to full adulthood. The exact period of adolescence, which varies from person to person, falls approximately between the ages 12 and 20 and encompasses both physiological and psychological changes. Physiological changes lead to sexual maturity and... Read more
Personal appearance Personal appearance
95. Complexion See also 370. SKIN . achromasia absence of pigmentation in the skin. chlorosis greensickness; a disease of girls in puberty, characterized by, among other symptoms, greenishness of the complexion. erythrism a redness of beard and hair and ruddiness of complexion. Read more
Breast Breast
breast The human breasts are mammary glands — common to all mammals, by definition. There are differences between species in number and in structure, and also in the composition of the milk that they produce for feeding the offspring.A pair of nipples is of course common to both boys and... Read more
Girl Scouts Girl Scouts
Girl Scouts Girl Scouts of the USA, the largest voluntary organization for girls in America, is the only major group largely run by women ever since its inception. In 2003, there were 3.8 million Girl Scouts; more than fifty million women and girls have belonged to the organization since its... Read more
Jane Jane
Jane ♀ Originally a feminine form of John, from the Old French form Je(h)anne. Since the 17th century it has proved the most popular of the feminine forms of John, ahead of Joan and Jean. It now also commonly occurs as the second element in combinations such as Sarah-Jane. In Britain it is... Read more
Marguerite Marguerite
Marguerite ♀ (French) form of Margaret, also used in the English-speaking world, where its use has been reinforced by the fact that the name was adopted in the 19th century for a garden flower, a large cultivated variety of daisy. Margaret was earlier used in English as a dialect word... Read more
Imogen Imogen
Imogen ♀ The name owes its existence to a character in Shakespeare's Cymbeline (1609), but in earlier accounts of the events on which the play is based this character is named as Innogen, a name of Celtic origin, from Gaelic inghean ‘girl, maiden’. The modern form of the name... Read more
Indigo Girls Indigo Girls
Indigo Girls Folk duo For the Record… Opposites Dedicated Activists Musical Evolution Different Opinions Selected discography Sources For more than a decade, the Indigo Girls Read more

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puberty
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...procreate. Puberty occurs during...which begins as early as age 10 and...age 17. For girls, a rising...development. The outward physical signs of puberty tend to occur earlier in ...

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