NOUN
- the development of male secondary sexual characteristics in a female (or prematurely in a young boy)
How To Use virilism In A Sentence
- These typical lesions of the frontal bone with associated obesity and virilism were first described by Morgagni.
- For reasons I shall explain on page 106, such adrenal tumors may bring on sexual precocity in children, or a marked increase in masculine characteristics in women, the latter condition being known as virilism ( "man" L). The Human Brain
- Adrenal virilism is caused by an androgen-secreting adrenal tumor or by adrenal hyperplasia.
- However, he pointed out that androgen-related baldness was not strictly a male problem, and could also occur in women with high levels of male sex hormones, a condition called adrenal virilism.
- Taken together, these data demonstrate that the SERM-mediated virilism observed in female rats is likely independent of the mammary gland ER antagonism of SERMs.
- In adult women, adrenal virilism is caused by adrenal hyperplasia or an adrenal tumor.
