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testosterone

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testosterone /tɛˈstɑːstəˌroʊn/ noun
testosterone
/tɛˈstɑːstəˌroʊn/
noun
Learner's definition of TESTOSTERONE
[noncount]
medical : a substance (called a hormone) that occurs naturally in men and male animals
◊ Testosterone causes the development of the male reproductive system and characteristics of the adult male body.睾丸素,睾酮(促进男性生殖系统的发育和成年男性生理特征的形成)
informal + often disapproving : qualities (such as noticeable strength and aggressiveness) that agree with traditional ideas about what men are like大男子主义
BNC: 26997 COCA: 10400

testosterone

noun

tes·​tos·​ter·​one te-ˈstä-stə-ˌrōn How to pronounce testosterone (audio)
1
: a hormone that is a hydroxy steroid ketone C19H28O2 produced especially by the testes or made synthetically and that is responsible for inducing and maintaining male secondary sex characters
2
: qualities (such as brawn and aggressiveness) usually associated with males : manliness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web My own experience of transitioning, of taking synthetic testosterone, is not all doom. Kole Fulmine, refinery29.com, 20 July 2022 For individuals who transition from female to male, taking testosterone will typically lower one’s voice by expanding their vocal cords. Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 July 2022 Advocates point to the 2017 case of Mack Beggs, a high school wrestler who began taking testosterone while transitioning from female to male. David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2022 In October of last year, Loghan started taking testosterone to begin transitioning, Blake told Dateline. NBC News, 8 Feb. 2022 The project started when Philomene decided to take self-portraits every day to document their experience taking testosterone. The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2021 Additionally, cats with similar microbiomes had more frequent contact with each other, and cats with higher testosterone levels were more likely to try to escape, per the study. Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2022 In a review of four trials, it was found that men who took ashwagandha had an increase in sperm concentration and motility, as well as a small increase in testosterone levels. Marisa Cohen, Good Housekeeping, 28 July 2022 Meanwhile, cats with higher testosterone levels were also more likely to try to escape the room where they were observed. Sarah Sloat, NBC News, 27 July 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from German Testosteron, from Latin testēs testes + German -o- -o-- + -steron -sterone

Note: The name was introduced by the Hungarian pharmacologists Karoly Gyula David (1905-45) and János Freud (1901-48), the Dutch endocrinologist Elisabeth Dingemanse (1886-1952), and the German-born Dutch physician and pharmacologist Ernst Laqueur (1880-1947) (all affiliated with the Pharmaco-Therapeutic Laboratory of the University of Amsterdam) in "Über krystallinisches männliches Hormon aus Hoden (Testosteron), wirksamer als aus Harn oder aus Cholesterin bereitetes Androsteron," Zeitschrift für physiologische Chemie, Band 233 (1935), pp. 281-83

First Known Use

1935, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of testosterone was in 1935
BNC: 26997 COCA: 10400

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