Example sentences for: feminization

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  • As for the English word forte `strength,' it is not the feminine form of the French adjective fort `strong' but an English “feminization” of the French noun fort `strength.

  • Both sides, he wrote, failed to focus on moral decay as evidenced by such problems as relativism and the "disastrous feminization of education," whatever that means.

  • The aforementioned anomalous success of the Marine Corps suggests a politically sensitive cause that the Times doesn't mention: the feminization of the military hasn't made it that much more appealing to women but has made it much less special-seeming to men.

  • Development of the male genitalia is largely controlled by cells in the urogenital mesenchyme that express androgen receptors (AR) [ 1 2 ] . Germline mutations of the AR gene produce a spectrum of developmental abnormalities in 46,XY individuals ranging from infertility or mild hypospadias to complete feminization, which are collectively referred to as the androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS).

  • There is a possible explanation in light of the gender-specific differences observed in callosal size [ 24 ] coupled with the fact that prenatal exposure to EtOH causes feminization of male rats and defeminization of female rats [ 12 25 26 ] . There is a hormonal influence on the developing commissural pathway that could be disrupted by a number of EtOH-induced aberrations in hormone activity, such as the diminished perinatal surge of testosterone observed in EtOH-exposed male fetal rats [ 27 ] . The EtOH-induced attenuation of the testosterone surge eliminated the normal sex difference in rat callosal size.


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