Adolescence

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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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In scenes from the director's current life, her childhood and adolesence, her dreams, and the film she is directing, one sees the confluence of experiential memories carried into adulthood by this daughter of a mother destabilized by her submission to cultural imperatives.

Israeli mothers in film: "re-visioning" culture, engendering autonomy

Giant breast tumours of adolesence. Aust NZ J Surg 1987; 57: 243-247.

Giant fibroadenoma mimicking phylloides tumor: a rare occurrence in a postmenopausal female

Impressive stuff dealing with growing up and adolesence, with a great cast featuring Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette.

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Spaces for public orientation?: longitudinal effects of internet use in adolesence. I: The networked young citizen: Social media, political participation and civic engagement.

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The etiology of adolescents' perceptions of their weight, Journal of Youth and Adolesence, 15(1)461-474.

Adolescents' perceptions about their weight and practices to lose weight

presenting with hemoptysis, back pain, respiratory distress, and heart failure (secondary to the shunt), mostly during adolesence. (1)