ontogeny vs masculinization

masculinization vs ontogeny

ontogeny and masculinization both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ontogeny	Yes	No	No	No
masculinization	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, masculinization is a hyponym of ontogeny; that is, masculinization is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than ontogeny:

ontogeny: (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
masculinization: the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction)

Other hyponyms of ontogeny include culture, amelogenesis, angiogenesis, apposition, auxesis, anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis, cohesion, cultivation, cytogenesis, cytogeny, foliation, leafing, fructification, gametogenesis, germination, sprouting, habit, infructescence, intussusception, juvenescence, life cycle, masculinisation, virilisation, virilization, morphogenesis, myelinisation, myelinization, neurogenesis, palingenesis, recapitulation, proliferation, psychogenesis, psychogenesis, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, rooting, suppression, dentition, odontiasis, teething, teratogenesis, vegetation.

ontogeny (noun)	masculinization (noun)
(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level	the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction)

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