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masculinize
The authors conclude that androgen exposure may partially masculinize the female hyena's brain.
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Having said this, it is clear that prenatal androgens can both masculinize and defeminize juvenile and adult behaviors of rhesus monkeys.
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Testosterone is the executive that barks out orders to masculinize the fetal brain during pregnancy, but little is known about the underlings who scurry around to implement them.
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Early androgen treatment has been shown to masculinize and defeminize such vocalizations by shifting their features towards male-typical patterns and away from female-typical patterns.
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Other critics have suggested that all this feminist reimagining is eventually hijacked by an attempt to masculinize the story, literally dressing Snow White in a suit of armor.
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The following developmental stages will translate this genetic sex into gonadal sex, that is, either ovaries or testes, which will secrete hormones that will masculinize or feminize the fetus.
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- Give a masculine appearance or character to; "Fashion designers have masculinized women's looks in the 1990s"
- Produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy; "the drugs masculinized the teenage girl"
- (masculinization) the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction)
- In biology and medicine, virilization refers to the biological development of sex differences, changes that make a male body different from a female body. Most of the changes of virilization are produced by androgens. ...
- (MASCULINIZATION) A term central to the critique of traditional academic discussions of the female offender and of popular depictions of female criminality. ...
- (Masculinization) focus on strength and authority, emphasis on demonstration of dominance through the use of military force.
- (masculinizing) assuming characteristics associated with male gender
