A student nurse reading a client's chart notes that the physician has documented an adolescent as prepubescent. What does the term prepubescent mean?
A) Adult secondary sex characteristics are present
B) Ova and sperm are produced by the reproductive organs
C) Reproductive organs do not yet produce ova and sperm
D) Active sexual behavior has been initiated
Ans: C
Puberty can be divided into three stages. In the first stage—prepubescence—secondary sex characteristics begin to develop but the reproductive organs do not yet function.
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