hormone replacement therapy

See also: hormone-replacement therapy

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Noun

hormone replacement therapy (countable and uncountable, plural hormone replacement therapies)

1. (medicine, especially serotherapy) Any of several medical regimens that introduce sex hormones to the body to replace lost or unavailable ones.

   Trans women often undergo hormone replacement therapy using estrogens and antiandrogens.

   Elderly women can use estrogenic hormone replacement therapy to alleviate postmenopausal symptoms.

   • 2023 April 5, Mark Hay, “Does Testosterone Affect Your Politics?”, in VICE‎^[1]:

     The text recounts a 2011 experiment: Researchers tested 136 healthy young men’s testosterone levels, asked them about their political party affiliations, then gave them either a placebo or ten grams of AndroGel one percent, a high-end dose of a common form of testosterone often used in hormone replacement therapies.

Synonyms

• HRT (abbreviation)
• hormone therapy

Derived terms

• bio-identical hormone replacement therapy

Translations

medical regimens

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 激素替代療法 / 激素替代疗法 (jīsù tìdài liáofǎ)

• Finnish: hormonikorvaushoito
• French: thérapie hormonale substitutive f
• Polish: terapia hormonalna f, zastępcza terapia hormonalna f