Associations to the word «Androgen»

Wiktionary

ANDROGEN, noun. (steroid hormone) The generic term for any natural or synthetic compound, usually a steroid hormone, that stimulates or controls the development and maintenance of masculine characteristics in vertebrates. A male sex hormone such as testosterone or anabolic steroids.

Dictionary definition

ANDROGEN, noun. Male sex hormone that is produced in the testes and responsible for typical male sexual characteristics.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne