(1) The nurses who enjoyed the field most were of the androgynous or masculine type and had high levels of self-esteem.
(2) Previous research by Bem has indicated that androgynous individuals of both sexes display "masculine" independence when under pressure to conform as well as "feminine" nurturance when interacting with a kitten.
(3) Those androgynous looks helped him play a resilient 1970s transvestite in Breakfast On Pluto, for example.
(4) Androgyny had a significant main effect on spatial ability, the more androgynous subjects being superior.
(5) He favoured tall, thin, androgynous-looking teenagers, many from London.
(6) Androgynous males most frequently identified with a nonstereotypic mother combining masculine and feminine qualities, whereas undifferentiated males more often identified with a stereotypically feminine mother (p less than .01).
(7) Sex-stereotyped women typically gave ratings similar to those given by androgynous women while sex-stereotyped men, when they differed from androgynous men, generally gave less positive ratings.
(8) Sexually androgynous alcoholics (N = 21), those able to affirm about themselves characteristics ordinarily attributed to both males and females, scored significantly lower on MMPI scales D, PD, PT, and SI and and higher on MA than a nonandrogynous group (N = 21) of alcoholics.
(9) The cover features the androgynous, skin-and-bones singer in an angular, narrow, cropped suit.
(10) The homosexual sample was "androgynous", and the heterosexual sample was highly "masculine sex typed," by definition (Bem, 1974).
(11) The relation between sex role self-concept (masculine, feminine, undifferentiated, and androgynous) and both relationship quality and dysfunctional relationship beliefs was examined in 370 monogamous partners who represented four types of couples (married, heterosexual cohabiting, gay, and lesbian).
(12) Lucky enough to catch him playing its songs at New York’s Ritz early in 1981, I was instantly won over by his thrilling talent and androgynous swagger.
(13) Rotary pursuit performance (time on target) and reminiscence data were collected for 113 androgynous and feminine men and women under massed or distributed practice conditions.
(14) On her own, Perkins tended to look game in her alert, coolly androgynous way, yet also a little lost, as if waiting for a prompt that wasn’t coming.
(15) Foxx explains that he changed his name to ensure better slots on the open-mic circuit, reasoning that female performers were usually called up first and that an androgynous tag might prove an advantage.
(16) A national sample of 131 male and 120 female therapists showed that male therapists tend to be sex-typed and female therapists are predominantly androgynous.
(17) In 20 women with marked androgynism or testosterone concentrations being suspected for a tumor blood samples were taken by selective retrograde catheterization of the ovarian and suprarenal veins via vena femoralis.
(18) Big Bang Facebook Twitter Pinterest Big Bang, stablemates of 2NE1 at the hugely successful label YG Entertainment, owe nothing to the accessible charm and androgynous features of your typical boyband.
(19) Elevated basal blood level of this enzyme cannot be regarded as a sufficiently reliable criterion in the differential diagnosis of the adrenal or ovarian origin of androgynism.
(20) However, masculine men did not differ from androgynous men in over-all corrugator response activity.
Male
Definition:
(a.) Evil; wicked; bad.
(n.) Same as Mail, a bag.
(v. t.) Of or pertaining to the sex that begets or procreates young, or (in a wider sense) to the sex that produces spermatozoa, by which the ova are fertilized; not female; as, male organs.
(v. t.) Capable of producing fertilization, but not of bearing fruit; -- said of stamens and antheridia, and of the plants, or parts of plants, which bear them.
(v. t.) Suitable to the male sex; characteristic or suggestive of a male; masculine; as, male courage.
(v. t.) Consisting of males; as, a male choir.
(v. t.) Adapted for entering another corresponding piece (the female piece) which is hollow and which it fits; as, a male gauge, for gauging the size or shape of a hole; a male screw, etc.
(n.) An animal of the male sex.
(n.) A plant bearing only staminate flowers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The bank tellers who saw their positions filled by male superiors took special pleasure in going to the bank and keeping them busy.
(2) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
(3) Melanoma is the second most common cancer, after testicular cancer, in males in the U.S. Navy.
(4) Here we report that sperm from psr males fertilizes eggs, but that the paternal chromosomes are subsequently condensed into a chromatin mass before the first mitotic division of the egg and do not participate in further divisions.
(5) This study compares the mortality of U.S. white males with that of Swedish males who have had the highest reported male life expectancies in the world since the early 1960s.
(6) For male schizophrenics, all symptom differences disappeared except one; blacks were more frequently asocial.
(7) Male sex, age under 19 or over 45, few social supports, and a history of previous suicide attempts are all factors associated with increased suicide rates.
(8) There were 12 males, 6 females, with mean age of 55.1 yrs (range 39-77 yrs).
(9) The effect of 4,4'-methylene bis(2-chloroaniline) (MOCA), 4,4'-methylene dianiline (MDA) and 4,4'-sulphonyldianiline (Dapsone) in vivo on xenobiotic biotransformation in male rat liver was studied.
(10) Pituitary weight, mitotic index and chromosomes were studied in male rats following a single or repeated dose of estradiol-benzoate for a total period of 210 days.
(11) Thus, our study confirmed that male subjects with a history of testicular maldescent have an increased risk for testis cancer, although the magnitude of this risk was lower than suggested previously.
(12) The sequential histopathologic alterations in femorotibial joints of partial meniscectomized male and female guinea pigs were evaluated at 1, 2, 3, 6, and 12 weeks post-surgery.
(13) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
(14) We investigated whether these peptides also affect the sleep EEG in humans when given intravenously by comparing polysomnographically the effects of four boluses of (1) placebo, (2) 50 micrograms GHRH or (3) 50 micrograms SRIF administered at 22.00, 23.00, 24.00 and 1.00 h to 7 male controls.
(15) In this paper, we report the cases of 4 male patients (mean age 32.7 yr) with right-ventricular dysplasia, that occurred in familial form.
(16) Male weanling Sprague Dawley rats were depleted on a low AIN-76A formulated basal diet for 21 days.
(17) 1 The effects of chronic ethanol intake on the elimination kinetics of antipyrine were determined in nineteen male alcoholic subjects with comparison made to fourteen male volunteers.
(18) Seven males have been observed carrying both inherited tritan and red-green defects.
(19) Local application of 8-OH-DPAT (0-5 micrograms) into the median raphe nucleus, facilitated male rat sexual behavior, as evidenced by a decrease in number of intromissions preceding ejaculation and in time to ejaculation.
(20) Eight-week-old virgin untreated female mice were induced to ovulate using equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and were then caged with males overnight.