Growth Disorders

"Growth Disorders" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Growth Disorders" by people in this website by year, and whether "Growth Disorders" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 148 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 12 publications in 2016
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