gyno-, gyn-, gynaeco-, gyneco-, gyne-, -gynia, -gynic, gynec-, -gynist, -gynous, -gyny +

Any agent, such as female sex hormones, that induces the development of or stimulates female somatic or behavioral characteristics.

1. Stimulating the development of female characteristics.
2. Giving birth predominantly to females.
3. Obsolete term meaning productive of female characteristics.

Radiography of the female genital organs using air or other gas injected intraperitoneally as a contrast medium.

1. Resembling a woman in form and structure.
2. In biology, a worker ant that lays eggs.
3. In zoology, a reference to or designating an individual that functions as a fully developed female; although structurally incomplete, as an egg-laying worker ant.

Resembling a female or woman; womanlike, feminine.

One who worships women.

The worship of a woman or women.

Relating to gynecology.

A physician specializing in the diseases of women, especially those of the female reproductive system.

1. The study and treatment of diseases and disorders of the human female reproductive system.
2. The medical specialty concerned with diseases and the hygiene of the female genital tract, as well as endocrinology and reproductive physiology of the female.
3. The branch of medicine that devotes itself to the care and prevention of genital tract disorders in women and which for the most part is not concerned with pregnancy. It is also associated with public-health functions, and includes family planning, preconception counseling, genetic counseling, and sexual therapy.

A morbid or excessive desire for women; satyriasis.

1. Enlargement of the male breast, in a minority of cases accompanied by galactorrhea.

In a few cases, breast development is so marked as to require corrective mastectomy.

2. Excessive development of the male mammary glands, due mainly to ductal proliferation with periductal edema; frequently secondary to increased estrogen levels, but mild gynecomastia may occur in normal adolescence.
3. Also called mammary feminism (older term), gynecomasty (seldom used), gynecomastism (rarely used), gynecomazia (rarely used).

In Eastern Christianity, the part of the church reserved for women, formerly the galleries, now chiefly the narthex.

Any disease of, or peculiar to, women.

A morbid fear of women or of the society of women.