hormone replacement therapy
noun1
Medicine, Sciences Any of several medical regimens that introduce sex hormones to the body to replace lost or unavailable ones.
Especially serotherapy
- Trans women often undergo hormone replacement therapy using estrogens and antiandrogens.
- Elderly women can use estrogenic hormone replacement therapy to alleviate postmenopausal symptoms.
1 more example
- 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.2023 April 5, Mark Hay, “Does Testosterone Affect Your Politics?”, in VICE:
- Synonyms
- HRT, hormone therapy
- Derived terms
- bio-identical hormone replacement therapy