height growth
Increase in stature
Height growth is the increase in vertical stature, typically referring to how tall a person becomes over time.
The term appears most often in discussions of childhood development, where height growth follows predictable patterns influenced by genetics, nutrition, and hormones: The pediatrician tracked her height growth on a chart.
It also applies to plants and other organisms that gain vertical dimension.
- tallOf considerable height
- pubertySexual development stage
- stretchPull to extend
- inchesSmall length units
- spurtSudden forceful discharge
measure · stature · elongate · vertical · adolescence · shoot up · hormones · nutrition · bones · spine · lengthening · towering · shoot · rise · development · centimeters · charts · measuring tape
height growthshrinking
Decreasing in dimension
shrinkage · compression · contraction · diminishing · dwindling
height growthstunted growth
Incomplete physical development
arrested development · growth inhibition · dwarfism · short stature
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