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virilisation vs maturation

maturation vs virilisation

virilisation and maturation both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
virilisation Yes No No No
maturation Yes No No No
As nouns, maturation is a hypernym of virilisation; that is, maturation is a word with a broader meaning than virilisation:
  • virilisation: the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction)
  • maturation: (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
Other hypernyms of virilisation include development, growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny.
virilisation (noun) maturation (noun)
the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction) (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
coming to full development; becoming mature
(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
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