Vocabulary

• breaks down: To forcibly break, destroy or make collapse
• in blood: Covered or stained with blood, literally or figuratively.
• together with: In addition to; along with.
• due to: Because of; owing to
• break down: To forcibly break, destroy or make collapse
• pattern: Model to follow in making or doing something
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• puberty: Stage of life when you become sexually mature
• hormone: Chemical produced by the body to control functions
• stimulate: To arouse or excite emotionally
• interaction: Process of people or things affecting each other
• occur: To come to pass or to happen
• maintain: To keep saying something a certain way
• mature: Behaving like an adult
• release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
• due: When something is required or expected
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• gland: Organ that produces substances for the body to use
• peak: Part of a cap that sticks out over your eyes
• development: Act or process of growing bigger or more advanced
• decrease: To reduce the size, amount or number of something
• fully: Completely or entirely
• continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
• menstrual: Concerning a female's period
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• sudden: Happening or done quickly or unexpectedly
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• pituitary: Concerning the pituitary gland
• menstruation: Monthly discharge of blood from the uterus
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• rupture: To (cause to) burst or break
• degenerate: To become something worse or inferior; deteriorate
• secrete: To hide something so it will not be seen or found
• ovary: Egg-producing organ of female humans and animals
• blood: Red liquid in the bodies of people and animals
• level: Specific height of something
• begin: To do the first part of an action; to start
• secretion: Release of a liquid from a gland or cell
• long: Person's name
• cycle: Series of regular and repeated actions
• follicle: Small spherical group of cells containing a cavity
• ovulation: Production of eggs within the female body
• line: Border that divides two places or regions
• large: Big; of great size; broad, tall, wide, or fat
• shortly: Quickly; soon; in a moment
• degeneration: Process of gradual decline in condition/function
• day: A period of 24 hours beginning at midnight
• body: The physical structure of a person or animal.
• thicken: To make something more dense or concentrated
• thickness: Distance between the opposite edges of a thing