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Abstract
Deviations from the average values for a specific age and sex in any or all of the following: height, weight, skeletal proportions, osseous development, or maturation of features. Included here are both acceleration and retardation of growth.
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6 entry terms
- Stunted Growth
- Stunting
- Disorder, Growth
- Growth Disorder
- Growth, Stunted
- Stuntings
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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do not confuse with NUTRITION DISORDERS (disorders of assimilating & utilizing nutrients)
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72(69)
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- Growth (1966-1968)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Growth Disorders. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D006130. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D006130
- Growth Disorders. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2538477