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OCR: elopment If the cause of the precocious sexual dev is premature activation of the he same hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis in t rmal pattern that occurs at a normal age in no us puberty, puberty, the diagnosis is central precocio If, however, the aetiology is exogenous administration of sex steroids, autonom al gland orproduction of sex steroids from the adrer roduction gonad, or autonomous gonadotrophin p al precocity in boys, the diagnosis is incomplete sexu e have Girls who virilise and boys who feminis contrasexual precocity. nce the All patients with sexual precocity experi e, they effects of increased sex steroids. Therefor ropriate grow in stature at a rate faster than is ap e age for their chronological age, and their bo advances too quickly,