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- noun Development of male secondary sexual characteristics.
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- noun Development of the sex characteristics that are typically found in men.
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- noun the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction)
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Examples
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Dissatisfaction is found in ~25% of 46,XY patients with partial virilization regardless of assigned gender.
It's Easier to make a Hole than a Pole Zoe Brain 2008
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However, at puberty testosterone production usually increases and is enough to cause virilization, so in such cases where the child identifies strongly with a female role it is advisable to perform a gonadectomy before puberty.
Transsexual Causation, the American Psychiatric Association, and Interpol Zoe Brain 2008
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It causes virilization, masculinization, and growth of muscles.
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The hormone cortisol, recently synthesized in the lab, had been found to arrest the virilization these girls normally underwent, allowing them to develop as normal females.
Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002
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The testosterone levels are used to assess for a deficiency, as well as: early or late puberty in boys possible impotence and infertility in men any excessive hair growth, male body characteristics (virilization), and irregular menstrual periods in women
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Symptoms may include dizziness; fainting; fever; buying buy medrol online of appetite; top hormone pressure; avascular virilization sugar; agreement pain; nausea.
Wii-volution 2010
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General: Thyroid disease, Cushing syndrome, Signs of virilization, Signs of insulin resistance e.g. acanthosis nigricans.
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Rapidly progressive virilization: androgen secreting tumors.
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The proband in Family 2 (Subject III-11) presented at the age of 18 years with primary amenorrhea and signs of virilization
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Signs of inappropriate virilization (development of male secondary sexual characteristics) in children and the possibility of secondary testosterone exposure should be brought to a health care provider's attention.
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