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HYPOGONADISM

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Incompetence of the gonads (especially in the male with low testosterone); results in deficient development of secondary sex characteristics and (in prepubertal males) a body with long legs and a short trunk

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("hypogonadism" is a kind of...):

incompetence (inability of a part or organ to function properly)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hypogonadism"):

eunuchoidism; male hypogonadism (the state of being a eunuch (either because of lacking testicles or because they failed to develop))

Kallman's syndrome (hypogonadism with anosmia; a congenital sexual disorder that prevents the testicles from maturing at puberty)

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 Context examples: 

Representative examples include gonadal agenesis, dysgenesis, and hypogonadism.

(Non-Neoplastic Gonadal Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)