ontogeny vs virilization

virilization vs ontogeny

ontogeny and virilization both are nouns.

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

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

ontogeny (noun)	virilization (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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