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- DictionarySpurt/spərt/
verb
- 1. gush out in a sudden and forceful stream: "he cut his finger, and blood spurted over the sliced potatoes"
- 2. move with a sudden burst of speed: "the other car had spurted to the top of the ramp"
noun
- 1. a sudden gushing stream: "a sudden spurt of blood gushed into her eyes"
- 2. a sudden marked burst or increase of activity or speed: "late in the race he put on a spurt and reached second place"
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5 days ago · It is a time when you grow very fast and your body changes into an adult body. Puberty usually starts between ages 10 to 14 in boys, but it may start earlier or later. You may not go through puberty at the same time or in the same way as friends your age do. Puberty usually ends by about age 15 or 16 in boys.
4 days ago · A period of fast physical growth is called a growth spurt. During this short time, a child’s weight and height increase quicker than normal. With girls, the final growth spurt tends to hit between 10 and 11 years. This stage can last until they are 15-17 years old.
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4 days ago · Cognitive Characteristics and Growth • Adolescents frequently use personal fable, a thinking pattern related to cognitive function • Personal fable often leads to the dangerous belief of being invincible • Piaget believed the formal operations stage starts at the beginning of adolescence • Adolescents can reason abstractly and use metacognition • The brain of an adolescent is both ...
1 day ago · Biological maturation (puberty), psychological development, and social transition broadly define this period. Physical and Psychological Changes. Puberty heralds the onset of adolescence, bringing about a series of physical changes like growth spurts, development of secondary sexual characteristics, and other physiological changes.
5 days ago · Español. What should I know about my child's development during adolescence? Your child will have a growth spurt during adolescence. This growth spurt and other changes during adolescence may cause him or her to change eating habits. His or her appetite will increase so he or she will eat more than usual.
5 days ago · Physics, science that deals with the structure of matter and the interactions between the fundamental constituents of the observable universe. Its scope of study encompasses not only the behavior of objects under the action of forces but also gravitational, electromagnetic, and nuclear force fields.