œstrogenized, a. Med.
(ˈiːstrədʒənaɪzd)
Also (chiefly U.S.) estr-.
[f. œstrogen + -ize + -ed1.]
Treated with œstrogen. Also ˌœstrogeniˈzation, the action or result of treating with œstrogen.
| 1946 Nature 20 July 96/1 The mobilization of lipo⁓chrome..in the serum of œstrogenized or actively laying fowl must..be familiar to all who have prepared phospholipid extracts from the sera of such birds. 1961 Proc. 4th Nat. Cancer Conf. (U.S.) 42/1 The lymphoid neoplasms that follow chronic estrogenization in some strains of mice. 1974 Brain Res. LXXX. 152 (heading) Inhibitory effect of neonatal estrogenization on the incorporation of [3H]lysine in the Purkinje cells of the adult male and female rat. 1975 Nature 5 June 498/1 The oestrogenised pituitary glands, without bromocryptine, stored less and released more prolactin. |