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masculinize /ˈmaskjəlɪnʌɪz /(also masculinise) verb [with object]1Induce male physiological characteristics in: male sex steroids masculinize female hyenas...- Adkins-Regan and Wade also found that masculinized female Zebra Finches (with sex-reversed gonads) exhibit male-typical bill coloration.
- Developmentally, estrogens might be synthesized only locally in the telencephalon of male Zebra Finches to masculinize the neural circuits controlling song.
- The white male becomes masculinized through the castration or symbolic feminization of his foil, the black male.
1.1Make (someone or something) masculine in nature or appearance: as time went on, she had to masculinize her image to keep power...- Heavily masculinised contact sports celebrate and reinforce dominant roles of gender.
- Sport and physical activity are masculinized domains.
- With social networks largely confined to highly masculinized spaces, women had difficulty entering the industry in any capacity other than as their husbands' assistants.
Derivativesmasculinization noun ...- If you see this, you are very likely to see change in every other aspect of masculinisation as well.
- Patients usually retain normal secondary sexual characteristics and rarely exhibit virilizing signs such as deepening of the voice, temporal balding or masculinization of body habitus.
- This androgen exposure causes partial to complete masculinization of the external genitalia in utero, and the masculinized genitalia in the newborn female typically lead to diagnosis within days of birth.
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