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Any of several medical regimens that introduce sex hormones to the body to replace lost or unavailable ones.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: especially serotherapy
Topics: medicine, sciences
Examples
- Trans women often undergo hormone replacement therapy using estrogens and antiandrogens.
- Elderly women can use estrogenic hormone replacement therapy to alleviate postmenopausal symptoms.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women; believed to protect them from heart disease and osteoporosis
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hormone-replacement therapy, HRT
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: therapy
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
激素替代療法 /激素替代疗法
(jīsù tìdài liáofǎ)
— medical regimens
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Finnish:
hormonikorvaushoito
— medical regimens
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French:
thérapie hormonale substitutive
— medical regimens
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Icelandic:
hormónameðferð
— medical regimens
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Polish:
terapia hormonalna
— medical regimens
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Polish:
zastępcza terapia hormonalna
— medical regimens
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Swedish:
hormonersättningsterapi
— medical regimens
