Usage examples (17)

• It causes virilization, masculinization, and growth of muscles.
• Dissatisfaction is found in ~25% of 46,XY patients with partial virilization regardless of assigned gender.
• The hormone cortisol, recently synthesized in the lab, had been found to arrest the virilization these girls normally underwent, allowing them to develop as normal females.
• However, at puberty testosterone production usually increases and is enough to cause virilization, so in such cases where the child identifies strongly with a female...