Human Growth
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- adducted
- referring to movement of the extremities toward the center of the body
- conscience
- a persons internal system of values, similar to superego
- cooperative/associative play
- a play style typical of preschool children in which they begin to take turns and share in a cooperative manner
- eneresis
- bedwetting after the age when urinary control has been established
- initiative
- Erickson's task for the preschool child demonstrated by pretend exploration and trying on of new roles.
- epiphyseal cartilage
- the center for ossification & growth at the end of long bones
- industry
- Erickson's task for the school age child. At this stage chilren are productive an focus on the real world and their riles in it
- malocclusion
- a malposition or imperfect contact btween the upper & lower teeth
- ossification
- the hardening process whereby bone tissue gradually replaces the soft cartilage tissue
- puberty
- the period following childhood and before adolescence in which the body prepares for the changes necessary for reproduction
- reciprocity
- moral feeling of concren for what is fair to others and described by Kohlberg
- saturated fats
- fats that come from animals. found in meat and dairy products
- school phobia
- an intense fear of going to school
- scoliosis
- abnormal lateral curvature of the spine
- somatic
- pertaining to the body
- team play
- an advanced style of play typical of older children that require the ability to follow rules and regulations. Team play may be competitive in nature
- adenophypophsis
- the anterior lobe of the pititary gland
- adolescence
- transitional period beginning with sexual maturity and ending with growth cessation and movement toward emotional maturity
- ambivalance
- an emotional state of having conflicting opposite feelings such as love & hate for a person or object
- anorexia nervosa
- eating disorder that is characterized by willful starvation & severe weight loss
- apocrine gland
- sweat glands in the axillae and public region
- bulimia
- an eating disorder characterized by a series of binges followed by purging and self induced vomiting
- depression
- prolonged feelings of profound sadness and unworthiness
- ejaculation
- the release of sperm and semen
- emotions
- expressed feeling tones that influence a person's behavior
- estrogen
- hormone produced by the ovary
- gonads
- the male and female sex glands
- larynx
- a term for the voice box that houses the vocal cords
- menarche
- the onset of menses (first menstrual period)
- ova
- the female sex cell
- ovaries
- the female sex glands and gonads
- penis
- the male sex organ
- preadolescence or puberty
- a time of rapid growth ending wiht reproductive maturation
- primary sex characteristics
- the growth and maturation of the sex glands
- progesterone
- a female sex hormone
- scrotum
- a sac that holds the testes
- secondary sex characteristics
- all the changes that play no direct role in reproduction such as the appearance of pubic, axillary, and facial hair; an increase in activity of the sebaceous and apocrine glands; breas development; and widening of the pelvic and hip bones
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sexually transmitted diseases
(STD's) - diseases that are transmitted through sexual intercourse
- sperm
- the male sex cell
- testes
- the male gonads
- testosterone
- the male sex hormone prduced by the interstitial cells of the testes