MASCULINISATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does masculinisation mean? 

• MASCULINISATION (noun)
  The noun MASCULINISATION has 1 sense:

1. the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction)

  Familiarity information: MASCULINISATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MASCULINISATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

masculinisation; masculinization; virilisation; virilization

Hypernyms ("masculinisation" 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)