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Feeling weak and unsteady.  

A series of internal head injuries in a very young child, caused by being shaken violently. It can result in brain damage leading to speech and learning disabilities, paralysis, seizures and hearing loss, and may be life-threatening. Shaken baby syndrome (SBS) is a type of child abuse in which a child is violently shaken while…

To move, or make something move, with short quick movements.  

An act of sexual intercourse. A feeling of wanting to have sexual intercourse with someone.  

One of six babies born to a mother at the same time. One of six children born of a single gestation. One of the six offspring born from the same pregnancy.  

The determination of a baby’s sex before conception by separating the spermatozoa carrying Y chromosomes from those carrying X chromosomes.  

Referring to genes which are linked to X chromosomes. Referring to characteristics such as colour-blindness which are transmitted through the X chromosomes. Describing genes (or the characteristics controlled by them) that are carried on the sex chromosomes, usually the X chromosome. The genes for certain disorders, e.g. hemophilia, are carried on the X chromosome. Since…

A surgical operation accompanied by hormone treatment to change someone’s physical sex-linked characteristics from female to male or from male to female. The surgical and medical process used to change a person’s sex from male to female or female to male. Sex change is performed as treatment for gender-identity disorder, in which an individual acts…

The age when a person first has sexual intercourse.  

The degree to which something is bad or dangerous.