Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyeball becomes as big as it ever will when a child is about four years old. "The practical implication of this [is] that defects of vision, which indicate anomaly of growth, must be corrected far earlier in childhood than is customary today...
...Todd finds that "the adult form of mankind is the outcome of growth enhanced, dwarfed, warped or mutilated by the adventures of life." Heredity is important, and so is environment, especially nutrition. Undernourishment and malnourishment apparently do not affect heights to which children grow. But they very plainly keep children from becoming as broad and deep-chested and as bigheaded as they should...
...curious and intriguing fact that the face is extraordinarily sensitive to disturbances of growth. The dynamic centres of growth in the face have their maximum activity early in life and, growth being more seriously handicapped at that particular time, they suffer most...
...heads of boys and girls grow at the same rate from the nose up. But "it is characteristic of anthropoids and man that bodily growth in the female practically ceases at puberty, whereas, in the male, it continues for several years." Therefore the upper lips and jaws of boys have time to lengthen, while girls more often remain "baby faced...
...been able to cultivate it for more than two or three generations. Trouble was that in the beginning most bacteriologists thought that Pityrosporum ovalis could be cultured like diphtheria or scarlet fever bacteria. Actually the germ of dandruff is a fungus like yeast and needs special soil for growth. Drs. Moore & Kile raised it on wort agar...