Prepubertal

Definition: Prepubertal

Prepubertal

Adjective

1. (especially of human beings) at the age immediately before puberty; often marked by accelerated growth.

Commercial Usage: Prepubertal

Domain	Title
Books	Growth, Physical Activity, and Motor Development in Prepubertal Children (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Prepubertal

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Alcohol blocks the ability of IGF-1 to induce the release of LH in prepubertal female rats. Credit: NIAA.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Prepubertal

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		After studying many girls with McCune-Albright syndrome, however, researchers have learned that most do not appear to have early activation of the hypothalamus and pituitary, because the levels of LH and FSH are usually low, or similar to those of prepubertal children. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Prepubertal

"Prepubertal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Prepubertal" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Prepubertal

Anagrams: Prepubertal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-l-p-p-r-r-t-u"
	-1 letter: prepuberal.
	-2 letters: perpetual, prelature, puerperal, reputable.
	-3 letters: abrupter, aperture, palterer, pubertal, upbearer, ureteral.
	-4 letters: alerter, alterer, beleapt, bleater, blurter, epaulet, paperer, pearler, pearter, perturb, petrale, pleater, pleurae, prelate, prepare, pretape, puberal, purpler, rapture, realter, rebater, relater, repaper, replate, retable, taperer, trapper, upleapt.
	-5 letters: abrupt, arbute, barrel, barret, barter, bearer, beater, beleap, belter, berate, brutal, burlap.
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