adjective
- made to have masculine characteristics or qualities
Usage: often used in medical or biological contexts
Examples
- The hormone treatment resulted in masculinized features.
- Female athletes sometimes develop masculinized voices from steroid use.
- The study examined masculinized behavior in laboratory animals.
- Environmental chemicals can cause masculinized traits in fish populations.
- The patient showed masculinized secondary sexual characteristics.
- Researchers observed masculinized brain patterns in the subjects.