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Virilization

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The development of sex characteristics that are typically found in men. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction) wordnet

Etymology

From virile + -ization.

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