prepubertal
- adjective
- /priːˈpjuːbərtəl/
- Specialized
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prepuberal
- Many prepubertal children experience emotional changes as they begin to approach the onset of puberty.
- prepubertal children
Examples
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Several adult male participants responded that the quality of their mature voice was not as good as their prepubertal voice.
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Researchers find that prepubertal children often engage in innocent crushes, reflecting typical social development before puberty.
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Thorne (1986) reported that prepubertal children often use language such as "going with" someone or having "a crush on" someone.
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In particular, the researchers studied overeating during a child's "slow-growth period," the lull before the prepubertal growth spurt.
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We report the case of a prepubertal girl who experienced two recurrences of arteriovenous malformation, one in the maxillary sinus and the other in the mandible.
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Preventive efforts aimed at protecting prepubertal or pubertal adolescents from negative consequences of an early sexual debut should also address the sexual attitudes and willingness of older adolescents to have sex with their much younger peers.
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For child and adolescent depression, no consistent gender differences exist for prepubertal ages, but by age 15, girls are twice as likely to receive depressive diagnoses (Nolen-Hoeksema & Girgus, 1994).
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During the prepubertal stage, children's bodies undergo rapid growth as they approach puberty.
Synonyms
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7.4
At the stage just before puberty when a child's body starts to change
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Relating to children aged nine to twelve before they become teenagers
How Mature
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Prepubertal comes from pre- meaning 'before' and puberty, the time when a child's body begins to change and grow. So prepubertal means the stage just 'before' puberty, when fast physical growth happens.