English

Noun

hormone replacement therapy ‎(plural hormone replacement therapies)

1. (medicine, chiefly serotherapy) Any of several medical regimens that introduce hormones to the body to replace lost or unavailable ones.

   Trans woman often undergo hormone replacement therapy using estrogens and antiandrogens.

   Elderly women can use estrogenic hormone replacement therapy to alleviate postmenopausal symptoms.

Synonyms

• HRT (abbreviation)
• hormone therapy

Derived terms

• bio-identical hormone replacement therapy