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  2. Menarche - Wikipedia

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    The girls who experience menarche wear special clothes and style their hair like the Navajo goddess "Changing Woman". [44] The Nuu-chah-nulth (also known as the Nootka) believe that physical endurance is the most important quality in young women. At menarche the girl is taken out to sea and left there to swim back. [44]

  3. Puberty - Wikipedia

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    In response to the signals, the gonads produce hormones that stimulate libido and the growth, function, and transformation of the brain, bones, muscle, blood, skin, hair, breasts, and sex organs. Physical growthheight and weight—accelerates in the first half of puberty and is completed when an adult body has been developed.

  4. Child development stages - Wikipedia

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    Growth is steady though slower than in first two years. Adult height can be predicted from measurements of height at three years of age; males are approximately 53% of their adult height and females, 57%. Legs grow faster than arms. Circumference of head and chest is equal; head size is in better proportion to the body.

  5. Development of the human body - Wikipedia

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    In response to the signals, the gonads produce hormones that stimulate libido and the growth, function, and transformation of the brain, bones, muscle, blood, skin, hair, breasts, and sex organs. Physical growthheight and weight—accelerates in the first half of puberty and is completed when an adult body has been developed. Until the ...

  6. List of biological development disorders - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... (stimulates growth) Atrophic: Hypotrophic, dystrophic:

  7. Acceleration (human development) - Wikipedia

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    The apparent acceleration of body height occurred during the periods around the two World Wars and after the Great Depression. In the mid-nineteenth century European girls' menarche occurred at the average age of 16.5 years. One hundred years later, this age was reduced to under 12 years. [6] Increase in adult height of birth cohorts (cm/decade ...

  8. Growth hormone - Wikipedia

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    Effects of growth hormone on the tissues of the body can generally be described as anabolic (building up). Like most other peptide hormones, GH acts by interacting with a specific receptor on the surface of cells. [citation needed] Increased height during childhood is the most widely known effect of GH.

  9. Growth hormone therapy - Wikipedia

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    Growth hormone is a peptide hormone secreted by the pituitary gland that stimulates growth and cell reproduction. In the past, growth hormone was extracted from human pituitary glands. Growth hormone is now produced by recombinant DNA technology and is prescribed for a variety of reasons. GH therapy has been a focus of social and ethical ...