- precocious pseudopuberty
- appearance of some secondary sex characters before the normal age of puberty but without maturation of the gonads. Called also gonadotropin-independent, incomplete, or peripheral precocious puberty.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
precocious pseudopuberty
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