puberty

As nouns the difference between puberty and adrenarche

is that puberty is the age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction while adrenarche is a stage of maturation of the cortex of the human adrenal glands, related to puberty, typically occurring between the ages of six and ten years and involving both structural and functional changes.

As nouns the difference between puberty and gonadarche

is that puberty is the age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction while gonadarche is the earliest gonadal changes of puberty, when (in response to pituitary gonadotropins), the ovaries in girls and the testes in boys begin to grow and increase the production of the sex steroids, especially estradiol and testosterone.

As nouns the difference between puberty and thelarche

is that puberty is the age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction while thelarche is the first stage of postnatal breast development, usually occurring at the beginning of puberty in girls, in which a firm, tender lump develops under the centre of the nipple.

As nouns the difference between puberty and kisspeptin

is that puberty is the age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction while kisspeptin is (protein) a protein-coupled ligand that plays a role in puberty.

As a noun puberty

is the age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction.

As an adjective puberal is

of or pertaining to puberty.