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HYPOGONADISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Incompetence of the gonads (especially in the male with low testosterone); results in deficient development of secondary sex characteristics and (in prepubertal males) a body with long legs and a short trunk
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("hypogonadism" is a kind of...):
incompetence (inability of a part or organ to function properly)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hypogonadism"):
eunuchoidism; male hypogonadism (the state of being a eunuch (either because of lacking testicles or because they failed to develop))
Kallman's syndrome (hypogonadism with anosmia; a congenital sexual disorder that prevents the testicles from maturing at puberty)
Context examples:
Representative examples include gonadal agenesis, dysgenesis, and hypogonadism.
(Non-Neoplastic Gonadal Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)
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