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Gynecomastia Learning Center
Causes could include:
- Puberty
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Decreased testosterone level
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Gene Abnormality
- Phenytoin Overdose
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Androgens are hormones that create male characteristics, such as hair growth, muscle size, and a deep voice. Estrogens are hormones that create female characteristics. All men have both androgens and estrogens.
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Breast growth is directed exclusively by female hormones—estrogens. Although men have some estrogen in their system, it is usually insufficient to cause much breast enlargement because it is counterbalanced by male hormones—androgens. Upsetting th...
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Puberty is the time in which sexual and physical characteristics mature. It occurs due to hormone changes. Adolescence is the period between puberty and adulthood.
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Puberty is the period of human development during which physical growth and sexual maturity occurs.
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Puberty is the period of human development during which physical growth and sexual maturation occur.
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Sometimes referred to as teenage years, youth, or puberty , adolescence is the transitional period between childhood and maturity, occurring roughly between the ages of 10 and 20.
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The process of physical growth and sexual maturation that signals the end of childhood and the advent of adolescence. (Also, the period during which this process takes place.) The word puberty is derived from the Latin pubertas, which means adulth...
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Testosterone, the principal male sex hormone, is produced in the testes. Testosterone, an androgen, is necessary for the development of external genitals in the male fetus. In addition, increased levels of testosterone in males during puberty trig...
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Sex hormones tests include tests that measure levels of estrogen (estradiol and estriol), progesterone, and testosterone (total and free).
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Synthetic derivatives of the natural hormone testosterone are used to reduce the size of hormone-responsive tumors.
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Phenytoin is a medicine used to treat convulsions and seizures. Phenytoin overdose occurs when someone takes too much of this medicine. This is for information only and not for use in the treatment or management of an actual poison exposure. If yo...
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