woman

A woman (/ˈwʊmən/), pl: women (/ˈwɪmɨn/) is a female human. The term woman is usually reserved for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent. However, the term woman is also sometimes used to identify a female human, regardless of age, as in phrases such as "Women's rights". Women are typically capable of giving birth, though older women who have gone through menopause and some intersex women cannot.

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Pressure to be thin influenced by genetics, study finds

Fri, Oct 5, 2012

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Be tall, be thin, be beautiful. The media has made sure we’re constantly bombarded by such imperatives, and aside from frustrations, some people have gone to such extremes to fit popular media expectations that they end up hurting themselves. This is, sadly, most evident in the case of women, where eating disorders or anorexia are frequently [...]

Shorties: The woman with the most piercings in the world

Thu, Jun 9, 2011

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How many piercings do you think the most pierced woman in the world has? Fifty, a hundred, two hundred ? When she was examined by the Guinness book of records, Elaine Davidson had 462 piercings, with 192 in her face alone. But that was in May 2000, and things have changed greatly since then. In [...]

Woman with no fear intrigues researchers

Sun, Dec 26, 2010

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but being afraid and facing it; for a 44 year old woman who is referred to “SM” for privacy reasons, that is not an option – she can not feel fear, biologically. Researchers have tried and tried with their best techniques to scare her, but there was absolutely [...]

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