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Definition of Cyproterone

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Cyproterone

1. An anti-androgen that, in the form of its acetate (cyproterone acetate), also has progestational properties. It is used in the treatment of hypersexuality in males, as a palliative in prostatic carcinoma, and, in combination with oestrogen, for the therapy of severe acne and hirsutism in females. Pharmacological action: androgen antagonists. Chemical name: 3'H-Cyclopropa(1,2)pregna-1,4,6-triene-3,20-dione, 6-chloro-1,2-dihydro-17-hydroxy-, (1beta,2beta)- (12 Dec 1998)

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Literary usage of Cyproterone

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1. The Sex Offender: Current Treatment Modalities and Systems Issuesby Barbara K Schwartz by Barbara K Schwartz (2002)
"A placebo-controlled trial of the antiandrogen cyproterone acetate in deviant ... The long-term use of cyproterone acetate in pedophilia: A case study. ..."

2. Criminal Justice: New Technologies And The Constitution (1989)
"In contrast to estrogen compounds,60 which in the male produce effeminate body changes and may cause irreversible infertility, cyproterone and cyproterone ..."

3. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"Fang and Liao (36) have demonstrated that cyproterone acetate, an antian- drogen, inhibited the transport of labeled DHT from the prostatic cytoplasm to the ..."

4. Reviews in Environmental Health (1998): Toxicological Defense Mechanics edited by Gary E. R. Hook, George W. Lucier (2000)
"Important to the discussion of antiandrogen exposure to the female, cyproterone acetate has been reported to accelerate the rate of atresia and subsequently ..."

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