hormone replacement therapy en · NOUN
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Meanings
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(countable, qualifier:especially serotherapy, uncountable) Any of several medical regimens that introduce sex hormones to the body to replace lost or unavailable ones.
Trans women often undergo hormone replacement therapy using estrogens and antiandrogens.
The text recounts a 2011 experiment: Researchers tested 136 healthy young men’s testosterone levels, asked them about their political party affiliations, then gave them either a placebo or ten grams of AndroGel one percent, a high-end dose of a common form of testosterone often used in hormone replacement therapies.
2023 April 5, Mark Hay, “Does Testosterone Affect Your Politics?”, in VICE:Elderly women can use estrogenic hormone replacement therapy to alleviate postmenopausal symptoms.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| hormone replacement therapies | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
bio-identical hormone replacement therapy
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Translations (9)
fr thérapie hormonale substitutive (medical regimens) · az hormon əvəzetmə terapiyası (medical regimens) · cmn 激素替代療法 /激素替代疗法 (medical regimens) · is hormónameðferð (medical regimens) · pl zastępcza terapia hormonalna (medical regimens) · pl terapia hormonalna (medical regimens) · az hormon əvəzedici terapiya (medical regimens) · sv hormonersättningsterapi (medical regimens) · fi hormonikorvaushoito (medical regimens)