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Genital in relation to somatic maturation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2011
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Before relating somatic growth and maturation to genital maturation, we should present a concept of growth that is sometimes a little difficult to conceive. The most important basis in studying human growth is the fact that it is a continuum, and does not start at birth, but at conception. This continuum rarely moves at a constant speed. We are so used to thinking in terms of size attained: the average measure of head circumference at 3 months of age in health, for example. Yet to consider growth as movement leads us to think in terms of velocity; that is, how fast, or slowly, is an individual child growing.
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- I. Genital maturation
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- Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 10 , supplement S5: Fertility in Adolescence , 1978 , pp. 5 - 14
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- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978