Sentences with phrase «called puberty»

Almost every parent attends a course called puberty and receives a detailed booklet when their children enter senior school.

With so - called puberty «monsters» speaking directly to characters as if imaginary friends with raging libidos, the comedy is not only raunchy, but also completely relatable for those who know puberty is less about blossoming, and more about finding a quiet place to jerk off.

-- now my goal was to lose the weight I'd suddenly started gaining from this pesky little phenomenon called puberty.

Not exact matches

If Goldman is right, the literal option at this age level almost guarantees rejection of both story and meaning when the student moves into puberty (unless his mental development is arrested at what Piaget calls the concrete operational level).

Alison Jones, Oxford, UK Photo: Linnea Weikleenget Breasts Here on my chest are these things called breasts, I spent many years waiting for them to appear, a sign of womanhood clear to see, a curvaceous indication of puberty and attainment of the adult state, I got them late.

The hardening process of the bones, called ossification, continues until puberty.

Some other signs are having one breast significantly larger than the other, breasts that don't grow either during puberty or pregnancy, or a breast that resembles an empty sac, called a tubular breast shape.

Our sleep - wake cycle, or circadian rhythm, is the result of a complex balance between states of alertness and sleepiness regulated by a part of the brain called Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SNC); in puberty, shifts in our body clocks push optimal sleep later into the evening, making it extremely difficult for most teenagers to fall asleep before 11.00 pm.

«Adolescent acne is a skin condition of puberty, when the body is producing increased levels of hormones called androgens, which, in turn, cause increased production of increased oily sebum and increased blockage of the oil glands, facilitating the growth of acne bacteria,» Dr. Orlow explains.

Puberty begins when a part of the brain called the hypothalamus begins pumping out gonadotropin - releasing hormone (GNRH) which in turn prompts the gonads to develop and the body to change.

Scientists have caught a glimpse of what they call the «pilot light of reproduction,» identifying for the first time a gene that plays a role in triggering puberty.

The authors call for further studies «to evaluate the many additional chemicals used in, and produced by, UOG processes to better quantify the concentrations of these and other contaminants in environmental samples and to assess the effects of exposure during other sensitive windows of development, including pregnancy and lactation, puberty, and the aging female.»

An inherited condition called 5 alpha reductase deficiency, triggers an apparent female - to - male sex change at puberty.

«The «misalignment» or mismatch between early school start times and teens» circadian rhythms — which normally shift later with puberty — may worsen self - regulation or so - called «executive functioning,»» says Owens.

A new book called The Chemistry Between Us points to an ancient neural circuit that turns boys» brains into boob detectors at puberty.

During puberty, the body will start to secrete a hormone called androgen, which is linked to enlargement of sebaceous glands, a gland that produces sebum.

They need nothing but water and have no need of outside nutrition until they hit what I call plant puberty which is indicated by the formation of a tap root.

Other concerns are potty humor, name - calling and terms of deity used as expletives, cracks about puberty, some mild sexual innuendo, as well as a beer drinking young adult and a cough syrup swigging authority figure.

We call this the «juvenile phase of development» as it's the time just before puberty,» said the study's lead author, Dr Lisa Mundy.

«By altering at this age, the pet's puberty and reproductive wake - up call, along with the resultant stress, is avoided.»

It turned out the night — which had a sub-theme of «Defeat is in the mind, resilience is in the soul» — involved four people discussing how they overcame adversity: the first had battled depression and bipolar and considered killing themselves, but found peace through the right medication, the love of family and friends and a surfing group called One Wave; the second was in a wheelchair after a diving accident when they were on the brink of puberty; the third was a bloke who'd technically died a few times while battling heart issues; the fourth was a man who'd spent most of his life cross-dressing and finally found the courage to become a woman.