Akademik

a change in a person's physical sexual characteristics (as by surgery and hormone treatments)

the alteration, by surgery and hormone treatments, of a person's morphological sex characteristics to approximate those of the opposite sex.

[1975-80]

sex change noun

(esp of humans) a changing of sex, usu achieved by the surgical transformation and/or recreation of sexual organs

Main Entry: ↑sex

sex change UK US noun [countable] [singular sex change plural sex changes]

a medical operation or series of operations that change a man into a woman or a woman into a man

Thesaurus: medical operations_hyponym

n. a change in a person's physical sexual characteristics, typically by surgery and hormone treatment

ˈsex change [sex change] noun usually singular

a medical operation in which parts of a person's body are changed so that they become like a person of the opposite sex