Gonadarche

Gonadarche refers to the first gonadal changes of puberty.Roger J. R. Levesque, Encyclopedia of Adolescence, Volume 1 (New York: Springer, 2012), p. 1196 The ovaries in girls and the testes in boys begin to grow and increase the production of the sex steroids.Marianne J. Legato, Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine (Amsterdam: Academic Press, 2010), p. 26

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