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{{GraphicWarning}}[[File:Clitoromegaly2.jpg|thumb|A woman with clitoromegaly]]'''Clitoromegaly''' is enlargement of the [[clitoris]].<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Clitoromegaly
|title=Clitormegaly
|publisher=The Free Dictionary
|date=2021
|accessdate=2021-12-22
}}</ref> (or '''macroclitoris'''<ref>{{REFweb |title=Dorland Medical Dictionary |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061022181659/http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands.jspzQzpgzEzzSzppdocszSzuszSzcommonzSzdorlandszSzdorlandzSzdmd_m_01zPzhtm#12508261 |archived=yes |date=2006-10-22 |accessdate=2021-12-23}}</ref>) is an enlargement of the [[clitoris]] that is mostly congenital or acquired, though deliberately induced clitoris enlargement as a form of female genital body modification is achieved through various uses of anabolic steroids, including testosterone.<ref name="Copcu">{{REFjournal |last=Copcu |init=E |last2=Aktas |init2=A |last3=Sivrioglu |init3=N |last4=Copcu |init4=O |last5=Oztan |init5=Y |title=Idiopathic isolated clitoromegaly: A report of two cases |journal=Reproductive Health |volume=1 |issue=1 |page=4 |date=2004 |pubmedID=15461813 |pubmedCID=523860 |DOI=10.1186/1742-4755-1-4}}</ref><ref name="Atilla">{{REFjournal |last=Senaylı |init=A |title=Controversies on clitoroplasty |journal=Therapeutic Advances in Urology |volume=3 |issue=6 |pages=273–7 |date=2011-12 |pubmedID=22164197 |pubmedCID=3229251 |DOI=10.1177/1756287211428165}}</ref><ref name="Perovic">{{REFjournal |last=Perovic |initSV |last2=Djordjevic |init2=ML |title=Metoidioplasty: a variant of phalloplasty in female transsexuals |journal=BJU International |volume=92 |issue=9 |pages=981–5 |date=2003-12 |pubmedID=14632860 |DOI=10.1111/j.1464-410X.2003.04524.x |s2cid=11836091}}</ref><ref name="Meyer">{{REFjournal |last=Meyer |init=WJ |last2=Webb |init2=A |last3=Stuart |init3=CA |last4=Finkelstein |init4=JW |last5=Lawrence |init5=B |last6=Walker |init6=PA |title=Physical and hormonal evaluation of transsexual patients: a longitudinal study |journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior |formatvolume=15 |quoteissue=2 |pages=121–38 |date=1986-04 |pubmedID=3013122 |DOI=10.1007/BF01542220 |s2cid=42786642}}</ref> Clitoromegaly is not the same as normal enlargement of the clitoris seen during sexual arousal.<ref name=WP>{{URLwikipedia|Clitoromegaly|Clitoromegaly|2021-12-23}}</ref>
==Presentation==
The different grade of genital ambiguity is commonly measured by the '''Prader classification''',<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Prader
|init=A
|title=Der Genitalbefund beim Pseudohermaproditismus femininus des kongenitalen adrenogenitalen Syndroms. Morphologie, Häufigkeit, Entwicklung und Vererbung der verschiedenen Genitalformen
|trans-title=Genital findings in the female pseudo-hermaphroditism of the congenital adrenogenital syndrome; morphology, frequency, development and heredity of the different genital forms
|language=German
|journal=Helvetica Paediatrica Acta
|volume=9
|issue=3
|pages=231–48
|date=1954-07
|pubmedID=13201003
}}</ref> which ranges, in ascending order of masculinisation, from '''1''': ''female external genitalia with clitoromegaly'' through '''5''': ''pseudo-phallus looking like normal male external genitalia''.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509182258/http://www.sickkids.ca/childphysiology/cpwp/genital/GenitalCAH.htm
|archived=yes
|date=2008-05-09
|title=Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia(CAH), Prader Scale
|accessdate=2008-09-28
}}</ref><ref name=WP/>
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