Meanings
plural hormone replacement therapies
- countableuncountableespecially serotherapymedicineAny 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.
2 more examples
Elderly women can use estrogenic hormone replacement therapy to alleviate postmenopausal symptoms.
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 VICESynonyms: HRT, hormone therapy
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAny of several medical regimens that introduce sex hormones to the body to replace lost or unavailable ones.
More synonyms by meaning
nounhormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women; believed to protect them from heart disease and osteoporosis
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Basque ordezko hormona-terapia
- ordezko hormona-terapiamedical regimens
Chinese Mandarin 激素替代療法 /激素替代疗法
- 激素替代療法 /激素替代疗法 (jīsù tìdài liáofǎ)medical regimens
Finnish hormonikorvaushoito
- hormonikorvaushoitomedical regimens
French thérapie hormonale substitutive
- thérapie hormonale substitutivemedical regimens
Icelandic hormónameðferð
- hormónameðferðmedical regimens
Polish terapia hormonalna, zastępcza terapia hormonalna
- terapia hormonalnamedical regimens
- zastępcza terapia hormonalnamedical regimens
Swedish hormonersättningsterapi
- hormonersättningsterapimedical regimens
Cite this entry
hormone replacement therapy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hormone%20replacement%20therapy
“hormone replacement therapy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hormone%20replacement%20therapy. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hormone replacement therapy,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hormone%20replacement%20therapy.
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