Precocious puberty (medical condition): A rare condition where the hormones that trigger the development of secondary sex characteristics are released prematurely resulting in puberty at an early age. In severe cases puberty can occur before the age of 3.
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»Introduction: Precocious puberty
»Symptoms of Precocious puberty
Precocious puberty: The development of breasts and pubic hair in girls under the age of six or menstruation before the age of eight. In boys, it involves the development of pubic hair or other adult sexual features under the age of nine.
Precocious puberty: [MIM*176400] condition in which pubertal changes begin at an unexpectedly early age. This can involve the initiation of the normal hypothalamopituitary axis changes before the age of 8 in girls, and age 9 in boys. Idiopathic causes are most common.
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Precocious puberty: Unusually early sexual maturity.
Source: Diseases Database
Precocious puberty: unusually early sexual maturity.
Source: CRISP
These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Precocious puberty:
Precocious puberty is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Precocious puberty, or a subtype of Precocious puberty,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Precocious puberty (medical condition): See Precocious puberty (disease information).
»Introduction: Precocious puberty
»Symptoms of Precocious puberty
Precocious puberty (symptom): Another name for Early puberty.
»Introduction: Early puberty
»Causes of Early puberty
Precocious puberty (symptom): The appearance of physical signs of puberty at an age significantly below the mean for a child of that epidemiology.
These medical disease topics may be related to Precocious puberty:
Source: Diseases Database
Source - NIH
Source - CRISP
Source: Diseases Database
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