Hormonal substance produced in the body that is essential for proper development and functioning of the male sexual organs and secondary male sexual characteristics such as deep voice, facial hair, and muscular build. Testosterone is the most important androgen hormone.

a hormone that stimulates activity of male sex organs, and encourages development of male sex characteristics.

a hormone secreted by the adrenal cortex which affects blood pressure and saline balance.

a hormone secreted by the adrenal cortex which affects the development of male characteristics.

a sex hormone secreted primarily in men by the testicles and in women by the ovaries and in the adrenal glands in both males and females.

Any hormone that produces male physical characteristics. In men the main hormone is testosterone.