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VIRILISATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does virilisation mean?
• VIRILISATION (noun)
The noun VIRILISATION 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: VIRILISATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("virilisation" 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)
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