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| a period of rapid physical maturation involving hormonal and bodily changes that take place in early adolescence. |
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| a girl's first menstruation, comes rather late in the pubertal cycle |
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| an important endocrine gland, controls growth and regulates other glands |
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| the testes in males, the ovaries in females, they are important in giving rise to pubertal changes in the body |
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| a hormone associated in boys with the development of genitals, an increase in height, and a change in voice. |
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| the level of cholesterol in the blood increases throught the adult years |
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| are influenced by heredity, but LDL can be reduced and HDL increased by eating food that is low |
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| Physical appearane(women) |
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| our weight usually drops after we reach 60, likely bcuz we lose muscle, which also gives our body a sagging look |
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| most axons are covered by it |
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| The shrinking, slowing brain |
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| on average the brain loses 5-10 percent of its weight between the ages of 20-90. Brain volume also decreses |
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| a condition that occurs when infants stop breathing. |
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| the upper boundary of life, the maximum number of years an individual can live |
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| the number of years that will probably be lived by the average person born in a specific years. living healthy can increase our life expectancy 31 more years |
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| why can women expect to live longer than men? |
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| social factors such as health attitudes, habits, lifestyles, and occupation are probably important. |
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| involved in voluntary movement, thinking,personality,and intentionality or purpose. |
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| have an active role in hearing, language processing, and memory |
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| play important roles in registering spatial location, attention, and motor control. |
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| specialization of function in one hemisphere or the other of the cerebral cortex. |
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