ontogeny vs virilisation

virilisation vs ontogeny

ontogeny and virilisation both are nouns.

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

As nouns, virilisation is a hyponym of ontogeny; that is, virilisation 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
virilisation: 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, masculinization, virilization, morphogenesis, myelinisation, myelinization, neurogenesis, palingenesis, recapitulation, proliferation, psychogenesis, psychogenesis, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, rooting, suppression, dentition, odontiasis, teething, teratogenesis, vegetation.

ontogeny (noun)	virilisation (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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