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What is ‘growth retardation’? What is normal growth? What is growth? In order to answer these questions, it is worth rephrasing a sentence of Paul Weiss which neatly summarizes the whole problem: ‘Growth is a word, a term, a notion, covering a variety of diverse and complex phenomena’.
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Vanderschueren-Lodeweyckx, M. (1984). Growth Retardation: A Paediatric Approach. In: Borms, J., Hauspie, R., Sand, E.A., Susanne, C., Hebbelinck, M. (eds) Human Growth and Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0743-4_4
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