CAH is the abbreviations of Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, a genetic anomaly that causes one’s adrenal glands to produce unusually high levels of androgen from the prenatal period onward; often has masculinizing effects on female fetuses.
CAH is the overdevelopment of the adrenal glands from birth; genetic disorder in which girls are masculinized because the adrenal glands secrete large amounts of androgen during prenatal development
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