(in a developing organism) the process in which full development into a female of the species is prevented because of a male developmental characteristic
there are separate components of the nervous system that control masculinizationand defeminization
2.
the removal of feminine qualities
Examples of 'defeminization' in a sentence
defeminization
However, the mechanisms of estrogen action resulting in masculinization/defeminization of the brain have not been clarified yet.
Mototsugu Sakakibara, Yoshihisa Uenoyama, Shiori Minabe, Youki Watanabe, Chikaya Deura,Sho Nakamura, Genki Suzuki, Kei-ichiro Maeda, Hiroko Tsukamura 2013, 'Microarray Analysis of Perinatal-Estrogen-Induced Changes in Gene Expression Relatedto Brain Sexual Differentiation in Mice', PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0079437. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)