English-Finnish translations for puberty

• murrosikä
• puberteetti
  Monet nuoret ovat uteliaita ja kuvittelevat olevansa aikuisia puberteetti-ikään tultuaan. Most young adolescents are curious and think that having reached puberty they are now grown up.
  Tiedämme esimerkiksi, että hormonilihan syönnillä on kohtalokkaat seuraukset puberteetti-iässä olevien nuorten kehitykselle. We know, for instance, that the consumption of hormone-treated meat is damaging to the development of adolescents during puberty.
  – Puberteetti-ikään tullessaan nuorella naisella on tietty määrä munasoluja, noin 500, jotka irtoavat yksi kerrallaan aina kuukautiskierron aikana. – At puberty, a young woman only has a limited number of egg cells – approximately 500 – which are released one by one at each menstrual cycle.
• varhaismurrosikä

Definition of puberty

• A developmental phase brought about by the action of hormones as part of the maturing process. For humans, there are three in total
• The age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction
• The period when a plant begins to flower

Related words

• pubertal
• prepubertal
• prepuberty
• impuberty