How tall is too tall? On the ethics of oestrogen treatment for tall girls

How Tall Is Tall? Compositionality, Statistics, and Gradable Adjectives

What is tall? Like many words, tall is fundamentally compositional in meaning — whether an item is tall depends on the statistical properties of the set of items it is being compared to. Despite preliminary evidence to this effect, no mathematical models of how tall operates in a given context have ever been empirically evaluated. We compare a number of statistical models to adults and children...

Hormonal changes during the first year of oestrogen treatment in constitutionally tall girls.

OBJECTIVE Oestrogens are used to inhibit growth in girls with constitutionally tall stature. We studied the changes in different hormones that accompany such therapy. SUBJECTS AND METHODS In this longitudinal study we examined the levels of total insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I), free thyroxine (FT(4)), thyrotrophin (TSH), testosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate (DHEA-S), cortisol a...

What can we do about tall girls?

Tall in the Saddle

Pony riding can give a new dimension to the life of a handicapped child.

Sex steroid treatment of constitutionally tall stature.