central precocious puberty
- central precocious puberty
- precocious puberty caused by premature hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal maturation; it is always isosexual and involves not only development of secondary sex characters but also development of the gonads. Increases in height and weight and osseous maturation are accelerated, and early closing of the epiphyses leads to short stature. Cf. precocious pseudopuberty, under pseudopuberty. Called also complete, gonadotropin-dependent, or true precocious p.
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true precocious puberty — central precocious p … Medical dictionary
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Central — At or near the center. In anatomy and medicine (as elsewhere), central is the opposite of peripheral which means away from the center. The word peripheral comes from the Greek peripheria ( peri , around or about + pherein , to bear, carry). A… … Medical dictionary
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