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adolescence

noun adulescentia, immaturity, juvenility, minority, nonage, puberty, pubescence, puerility, youth

See also: nonage

ADOLESCENCE, persons. That age which follows puberty and precedes the age of majority; it commences for males at fourteen, and for females at twelve years completed, and continues till twenty-one years complete.

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Interpersonal processes and psychopathology among expectant and nonexpectant adolecent couples.

Disorganized attachment relationships in infants of adolescent mothers and factors that may augment positive outcomes

Chest pain in otherwise healthy children and adolecent is frequently caused by exersize induced astma.

Electrocardiographic findings and QT dispersion in children with chest pain/Cocuklarda idiyopatik gogus agrisinda EKG bulgulari ve QT dispersiyonu

Ghost World (15) Brilliant coming of age comedy-drama based on Daniel Clowes' comix with Thora Birch as the disaffected, cynical adolecent adrift in a soulless world finding connections with Steve Buscemi's sad sack loser.

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We can discuss how dieting is constrained by the nature of eating and slimming over the past century, or how reactions to disease reflect altered modern experiences and expectations, or how contemporary issues in adolecent sexuality emerged through a series of historical changes.