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Demasculinization
Demasculinization The developmental process in which masculinization is inhibited or suppressed. In males, the term applies chiefly to demasculinization of the brain attributed to a hormonal anomaly in prenatal life.
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Masculinization
The developmental process of differentiating and/or assimilating masculine features and characteristics.
Demasculinization
The developmental process in which masculinization is inhibited or suppressed. In males, the term applies chiefly to demasculinization of the brain attributed to a hormonal anomaly in prenatal life.
Brain
"That part of the central nervous system that is located within the cranium (skull). The brain functions as the primary receiver, organizer and distributor of information for the body. It has two (right and left) halves called ""hemispheres."" "
Anomaly
Deviation from normal.
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Demadex
Demadex is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) approved in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): torsemide.
Demarcation
A setting of limits; a boundary; marking the limits of, delimiting; setting apart, separating. The word "demarcation" is used in medicine mainly in the sense of determining and marking off boundaries. For example, the surface demarcation in respect to damaged tissue can refer to the boundary between the living tissue and the necrotic (dead) tissue.
Demazin
Demazin is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) approved in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): chlorpheniramine maleate; phenylpropanolamine hydrochloride.
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Determinant
Part of the antigen molecule which binds to an antibody-combining site or to a receptor on T cells (see hapten and epitope).
Differentiation antigen
A cell surface antigenic determinant found only on cells of a certain lineage and at a particular developmental stage; used as an immunologic marker.
Domain
compact segment of an immunoglobulin molecule, made up of about 110 amino acids around an S-S bond, and encoded by a unique segment of DNA, surrounded by nontranslated sequences.
DR antigens
MHC class II molecules found on B cells and antigen-presenting cells of humans.
Defeminization
The developmental process in which feminization is inhibited or suppressed. In females the term applies chiefly to defeminization of the brain attributed to a hormonal anomaly in prenatal life.
Demasculinization
Depo-Provera
The trade name of the hormone, medroxyprogesterone acetate, manufactured by Upjohn in the United States. The hormone is progestinic and antiandrogenic. It has several clinical applications, one of which is to help sex offenders gain personal governance of their sexuoerotic conduct.
Diethylstilbestrol
A synthetic drug, not a steroid, that acts as a female sex hormone. Structural variants include dipropionate, dilaurate, and dibutyrate esters, and C14-diethylstilbestrol dibutyrate, the radioactive form used only for special investigative procedures.
Deviant
Not in conformity with what is considered ideal, standard, or normal, according to a given criterion standard that may itself be deviantly radical, conventional, despotic, or arbitrary.
Didactic
Taught with explicit rules and precepts.
Diecious
Denoting Sspecies in which male and female reproductive organs occur not in the same individual but in two different individuals.
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