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- Title
Genital in relation to somatic maturation.
- Authors
Falkner, Frank
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
GENITALIA development; SOMATIC cells; CONCEPTION; CHILD development; HEAD growth; CHILDBIRTH
- Publication
Journal of Biosocial Science, 1978, Vol 10, Issue S5, p5
- ISSN
0021-9320
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0021932000024032