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The Tanner scale remains the gold standard for determining pubarche. In clinical settings, this scale is primarily used by physicians, nurses, or other trained healthcare providers as part of a physical examination to assess the stage of puberty in children and adolescents, though in some cases the stage of puberty can be self-assessed. [4]
Gonadarche (/ ˌ ɡ oʊ n ə ˈ d ɑːr k i /) refers to the earliest gonadal (reproductive gland) changes of puberty. [1] In response to pituitary gonadotropins, the ovaries in females and the testes in males begin to grow and increase the production of the sex steroids, especially estradiol and testosterone. [2]
Tanner Scale of female breast development Thelarche , also known as breast budding, is the onset of secondary breast development , often representing the beginning of pubertal development. [ 1 ] It is the stage at which male and female breasts differentiate due to variance in hormone levels; however, some males have a condition in which they ...
The Tanner scale (also known as the Tanner stages or sexual maturity rating (SMR)) is a scale of physical development as pre-pubescent children transition into adolescence, and then adulthood. The scale defines physical measurements of development based on external primary and secondary sex characteristics , such as the size of the breasts ...
Pubarche; Spermarche; Menopause, the equivalent opposite change at the end of the child-bearing years; Andropause; Delayed puberty; Lina Medina, who had her menarche at age 8 months and is the youngest mother in history
Virilization is a medical term commonly used in three medical and biology of sex contexts: prenatal biological sexual differentiation, the postnatal changes of typical chromosomal male (46, XY) puberty, and excessive androgen effects in typical chromosomal females (46, XX).
Sexual differentiation is the process of development of the sex differences between males and females from an undifferentiated zygote. [1] [2] Sex determination is often distinct from sex differentiation; sex determination is the designation for the development stage towards either male or female, while sex differentiation is the pathway towards the development of the phenotype.
Pubic hair (or pubes / ˈ p j uː b iː z /, / p j uː b z /) is terminal body hair that is found in the genital area and pubic region of adolescent and adult humans. The hair is located on and around the sex organs, and sometimes at the top of the inside of the thighs, even extending down the perineum, and to the anal region.