of, relating to, or occurring in the period after puberty
2.
having been through puberty
postpubescent in American English
(ˌpoustpjuːˈbesənt)
noun
1.
a young person in his or her early teens
adjective
2.
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of postpubescents
Word origin
[post- + pubescent]post- is a prefix, meaning “behind,” “after,” “later,” “subsequent to,” “posterior to,”occurring originally in loanwords from Latin (postscript), but now used freely in the formation of compound words (post-Elizabethan; postfix; postgraduate; postorbital)
Examples of 'postpubescent' in a sentence
postpubescent
The complication rate after single-stage repairs was significantly lower in the prepubescent subgroup (10.52%) than in the postpubescent cohort (46.15%).
Da-Chao Zheng, Hai-Jun Yao, Zhi-Kang Cai, Jun Da, Qi Chen, Yan-Bo Chen, Ke Zhang,Ming-Xi Xu, Mu-Jun Lu, Zhong Wang 2015, 'Two-stage urethroplasty is a better choice for proximal hypospadias with severe chordeeafter urethral plate transection: a single-center experience', Asian Journal of Andrologyhttp://www.ajandrology.com/article.asp?issn=1008-682X;year=2015;volume=17;issue=1;spage=94;epage=97;aulast=Zheng. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)