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Sex hormone
A hormone, such as testosterone in males or estrogen in females, affecting sexual development and reproduction.
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A hormone, such as testosterone in males or estrogen in females, affecting sexual development and reproduction.
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| Word | Definition |
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| steroidnoun | (bodybuilding, sports) Any anabolic hormone used to promote muscle growth or athletic performance. |
| steroid hormone | A steroid hormone is a steroid that acts as a hormone. |
| testosteronenoun | (biochemistry, steroids) A steroid hormone that stimulates development of male secondary sexual characteristics, produced mainly in the testes, but also in the ovaries and adrenal cortex. |
| ectohormonenoun | (biology) Any hormone that is secreted into an individual's environment and affects the behaviour or activity of another individual (of the same or different species) in the manner of a pheromone. |
| sex chromosomenoun | (genetics) Either of a pair of chromosomes (in most animals and plants) whose combination determines the sexual characteristics of an individual. |
| pheromonenoun | (biology) A chemical secreted by an animal, especially an insect, that affects the development or behavior of other members of the same species, functioning often as a means of attracting a member of the opposite sex. |
| secondary sex characteristicnoun | A feature that distinguishes between the two sexes in adult members of a species, but is not directly part of the reproductive system. |
| pubertynoun | (more common) The process of sexual development that produces secondary sex characteristics and makes a person capable of reproducing sexually. |
| sexenoun | Archaic form of sex. [(countable) A category into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species; the system of such categories, which can differ by organism or by taxonomic branch.] |
| gendersexnoun | Sex or gender. A division of organisms into masculine, feminine and possibly others, by sexual or social characteristics. |
| hormonogenesisnoun | (biochemistry) The biosynthesis of hormones |
| hormonomenoun | (biochemistry) All the hormones in an organism |
| gendernoun | Identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis. (Compare gender role, gender identity.) |
| disorder of sex developmentnoun | A medical condition whereby the development of chromosomal or anatomical sex is in some way atypical; an intersex condition. |
| steroidogenesisnoun | (biochemistry) The process of steroid (hormone) production in living organisms. |
| androgenismnoun | The presence of androgens in the body |
| shemalenoun | (proscribed, especially in pornography) A male-to-female transsexual or transgender person; a trans woman. |
| sexual | Arising from the fact of being male or female; pertaining to sex or gender, or to the social relations between the sexes. |
| feminizationnoun | The act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized. |
| hermaphrodismnoun | Alternative spelling of hermaphroditism. [(biology) The condition of an organism that is able to reproduce as both male and female, either simultaneously (simultaneous hermaphroditism or cosexuality) or sequentially (sequential hermaphroditism or dichogamy).] |
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