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- verb Alternative spelling of
masculinize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy
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Examples
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“We think that these genetic differences might reduce testosterone action and under masculinise the brain during foetal development”, said researcher Lauren Hare.
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So pre-natal exposure to excess testosterone will partly masculinise female neurology.
BiGender and the Brain Zoe Brain 2008
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Those born with 5ARD or 17BHDD are feminised to some degree at birth, and masculinise to some degree at puberty.
BiGender and the Brain Zoe Brain 2008
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Leader of the study, Professor Vincent Harley has speculated that this genetic variation might reduce testosterone action and "under-masculinise" or feminise the brain during foetal development.
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Benjamin's Syndrome is a form of intersexuality in which the brain of a person with XY chromosomes fails to masculinise for some reason, or the brain of a person with XX chromosomes does masculinise there may be many ways in which this can happen.
Archive 2007-05-01 Zoe Brain 2007
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Benjamin's Syndrome is a form of intersexuality in which the brain of a person with XY chromosomes fails to masculinise for some reason, or the brain of a person with XX chromosomes does masculinise there may be many ways in which this can happen.
A Reply from a guy I used to know Zoe Brain 2007
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By destroying these particular instincts, that is to say by attempting to masculinise woman, and to feminise men, we jeopardise the future of our people.
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Of man there is little here: therefore do their women masculinise themselves.
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Of man there is little here: therefore do their women masculinise themselves.
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Of man there is little here: therefore do their women masculinise themselves.
Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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