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Wiktionary
n. Development of the sex characteristics that are typically found in men.
WordNet
n. the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction) [syn: masculinization, masculinisation, virilisation]
Wikipedia
In biology and medicine, virilization or masculinization is the biological development of sex differences, changes that make a male body different from a female body. Most of the changes of virilization are produced by androgens. Virilization is most commonly used in three medical and biology of gender contexts: prenatal sexual differentiation, the postnatal changes of normal male puberty, and excessive androgen effects in girls or women.
Usage examples of "virilization".
The hormone cortisol, recently synthesized in the lab, had been found to arrest the virilization these girls normally underwent, allowing them to develop as normal females.