VIRILIZATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does virilization mean? 

• VIRILIZATION (noun)
  The noun VIRILIZATION 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: VIRILIZATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIRILIZATION (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 ("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)

 Context examples 

This may cause virilization (the appearance of male physical characteristics in females).

(Androblastoma, NCI Dictionary)

When it affects women in reproductive age, it causes virilization, high blood pressure, and increased insulin levels.

(Ovarian Stromal Hyperthecosis, NCI Thesaurus)

The majority of patients present as phenotypic females with virilization.

(Ovarian Gonadoblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients may present with virilization.

(Ovarian Stromal-Leydig Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical manifestations may include virilization.

(Adrenal Androgen Excess, NCI Thesaurus)