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VIRILIZATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction)
Synonyms:
masculinisation; masculinization; virilisation; virilization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("virilization" is a kind of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)
Derivation:
virilize (produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy)
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