So, to recap: delayed puberty usually means that it hasn't started for a female by age 13 and for a male by age 14.

好！快速回顾一下：青春期延迟通常是指女性13岁、男性14岁时青春期仍未出现。

The physiologists, at all events, are familiar with such a delayed and incomplete puberty in the living organism, the result of degeneration.

无论如何，生理学家对生物体的这种延迟和不完全的青春期是退化的结果很熟悉。

But even if these patients can keep up this endless feeding cycle, they are plagued by lifelong complications, including delayed puberty, frequent infections, kidney disease and liver cancer.

但即使这些患者能够保持这种无休止的喂养周期，他们也会受到终生并发症的困扰， 包括青春期延迟、频繁感染、肾病和肝癌。