(a.) Having the qualities of a man; suitable to, or characteristic of, a man; virile; not feminine or effeminate; strong; robust.
(a.) Belonging to males; appropriated to, or used by, males.
(a.) Having the inflections of, or construed with, words pertaining especially to male beings, as distinguished from feminine and neuter. See Gender.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nurses who enjoyed the field most were of the androgynous or masculine type and had high levels of self-esteem.
(2) When added to the food in two different doses during 8 weeks, 11 beta-hydroxyandrostenedione had a pronounced masculinizing effect, and androstenedione did not modify the gonads at all.
(3) This report deals with the shortened estrous cycles, masculinization, depressed fertility, and the systemic hormone profiles resulting from a granulosa cell tumor in a doe.
(4) Moreover, the presence of a loss-of-function runt mutation masculinizes triploid intersexes.
(5) But when a man is placed in the role of a woman talking to other women, his masculinity is called into question.
(6) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
(7) We wanted a place where men could discuss masculine topics without facing the same public shaming outcry that happens on social media sites – feminists are quick on the trigger to try to take down anything they consider wrong … Milo Yiannopoulos lost his verified status on Twitter because of his views on masculinity.
(8) Two major facts that bear direct relationship with the control of masculine reproductive behavior were demonstrated.
(9) 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.
(10) Europe's first ruling on Brexit: it's masculine, unless you're Italian Read more EU diplomats speak, too, of genuine shock at proposals by the home secretary, Amber Rudd, to oblige British firms to disclose how many foreign workers they employ.
(11) Lacl of masculinization in female infants whose virilized mothers have h. luteinalis is in contrast to the common finding of fetal masculinization when maternal virilization occurs with luteoma of pregnancy.
(12) A new 1-stage procedure for clitorovaginoplasty in severely masculinized female pseudohermaphrodites is presented.
(13) The Turner prize-winning artist has turned his sights on the survivalist and his exceptionally rugged version of masculinity, arguing that it isn’t fit for the 21st century.
(14) Interestingly, in addition to feminizing XO animals, xol-1 mutations further masculinize XX animals already partially masculinized.
(15) On the Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory, they scored high on the depression, hysteria, psychopathic deviate, and paranoia scales, and they scored low on the masculinity-feminity scale.
(16) Nonmasculine individuals perceived the adversary more positively than masculine individuals regardless of strategy of resolution.
(17) Men who adopted a submissive feminine role and women with high masculine aggressive scores were more permissive as regards drinking.
(18) In the 1960's, high masculinity of mortality was associated independently with low proportions in primary activities, high proportions hiring in large cities, and with high discrimination against females in school enrollment combined with poor nutritional standards.
(19) The study was designed to test whether men and women identifying with a masculine stereotype differ in their perception of a confederate (adversary) who displays either an empathetic or aggressive role in resolving a disagreement over social issues.
(20) Thus, it appears that PG synthesis plays a role in the testosterone-induced masculine differentiation of the Wolffian duct.
Womanly
Definition:
(a.) Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior.
(adv.) In the manner of a woman; with the grace, tenderness, or affection of a woman.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prenatal risk determined by smoking pregnant woman was studied by a fetal electrocardiogram at different gestational ages.
(2) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
(3) A 66-year-old woman with acute idiopathic polyneuritis (Landry-Guillain-Barré [LGB] syndrome) had normal extraocular movements, but her pupils did not react to light or accommodation.
(4) Abbott also unveiled his new ministry, which confirmed only one woman would serve in the first Abbott cabinet.
(5) The so-called literati aren't insular – this from a woman who ran the security service – but we aren't going to apologise for what we believe in either.
(6) Sterile, pruritic papules and papulopustules that formed annular rings developed on the back of a 58-year-old woman.
(7) The first patient, an 82-year-old woman, developed a WPW syndrome suggesting posterior right ventricular preexcitation, a pattern which persisted for four months until her death.
(8) So too his statement that "in Zulu culture you cannot leave a woman if she is ready.
(9) Tactile stimulation of a coin-sized area in a T-2 dermatome consistently triggered a lancinating pain in the ipsilateral C-8 dermatome in a 38-year-old woman.
(10) A case is presented of a 35-year-old woman who was brought to the emergency service by ambulance complaining of vomiting for 7 days and that she could not hear well because she was 'worn out'.
(11) We present a 40-year-old woman with manifestations of all three disorders.
(12) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
(13) A case of automobile trauma to a pregnant woman at term is presented, and a plan of management involving fetal monitoring is recommended.
(14) Some fundamentals of the causes of diagnostic errors depending upon anatomophysiological and topographo-anatomical peculiarities of woman's organism are given.
(15) A 25-year-old woman presented with a giant leiomyoma in the lower third of the esophagus.
(16) In a Caucasian woman with a history of ocular and pulmonary sarcoidosis, the occurrence of sclerosing peritonitis with exudative ascites but without any of the well-known causes of this syndrome prompts us to consider that sclerosing peritonitis is a manifestation of sarcoidosis.
(17) A 45-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with complaints of fever and lumbago.
(18) Eaton-Lambert or myasthenic syndrome was diagnosed in a young woman with recurrent small-cell carcinoma of the cervix.
(19) No woman is at greater risk for ovarian carcinoma than one who is a member of a hereditary ovarian carcinoma syndrome kindred and whose mother, sister, or daughter has been affected with this disease and with an integrally related hereditary syndrome cancer.
(20) 23 years old woman with sudden deafness and ipsilateral lack of rapid phase caloric nystagmus was described.