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secondary sex characteristics

n. (plural of secondary sex characteristic English)

Usage examples of "secondary sex characteristics".

The hormone treatments will initiate breast development and enhance her female secondary sex characteristics.

It was as though her secondary sex characteristics were no longer feminine, butfor want of a better wordneuter.

Jill hooked a nurse's cape around his neck and reflected that its all-enclosing straight drape covered most of the primary and secondary sex characteristics-at least she hoped that it would.

What happens when she becomes an adolescent and that gland awakes from its sleep and becomes for twenty months the most powerful force in the human body, ordering everything from the sudden maturation of the primary and secondary sex characteristics to an increased production of visual purple in the eye?

It was as though her secondary sex characteristics were no longer feminine, but—.

They differ in style according to the area where they originated: the sexy Salzburger dirndl, with its low-cut bodice, artfully designed to make the most of a girl's secondary sex characteristics.