virilization

Definitions of virilization
  1. noun
    the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction)
    synonyms: masculinisation, masculinization, virilisation
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    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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