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Medical Term

secondary sexual characteristics

the physical features that develop at PUBERTY . In girls, the BREASTS and genitals increase in size and PUBIC hair grows. Boys grow pubic hair and facial hair, the voice breaks and the genitals become adult size.

Source: mediLexicon corpus · slug secondary-sexual-characteristics