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true hermaphrodite — an individual with true hermaphroditism, having both testicular and ovarian tissue. Called also true intersex … Medical dictionary
Intersex surgery — is one of several terms referring to surgery performed to correct birth defects or early injuries of the genitalia, primarily for the purposes of making the appearance more normal and to reduce the likelihood of future problems. The recent… … Wikipedia
True hermaphroditism — Infobox Disease Name = PAGENAME Caption = DiseasesDB = 29664 ICD10 = ICD9 = ICDO = OMIM = 235600 MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = med eMedicineTopic = 1702 MeshID = D050090 True hermaphroditism is a medical term for an intersex condition in which a… … Wikipedia
intersex — /in teuhr seks /, n. Biol. an individual displaying sexual characteristics of both male and female. [1915 20; back formation from INTERSEXUAL] * * * ▪ biology in biology, an organism having physical characteristics intermediate between a… … Universalium
History of intersex surgery — The History of intersex surgery is intertwined with the development of the specialities of pediatric surgery, pediatric urology, and pediatric endocrinology, with our increasingly refined understanding of sexual differentiation, with the… … Wikipedia
hermaphroditism — The presence in one individual of both ovarian and testicular tissue; i.e., true h.. SYN: hermaphrodism. adrenal h. altered appearance of the genitalia due to disorders of adrenocortical function, most often female virilization; not an example of … Medical dictionary
Intersexuality — is the state of a living thing of a gonochoristic species whose sex chromosomes, genitalia, and/or secondary sex characteristics are determined to be neither exclusively male nor female. An organism with intersex may have biological… … Wikipedia
Transsexualism — is a condition in which a person identifies with a physical sex different from the one with which they were born. A medical diagnosis can be made if a person experiences discomfort as a result of a desire to be a member of the opposite sex,cite… … Wikipedia
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Hermaphrodite — For other uses, see Hermaphrodite (disambiguation). Mating Helix aspersa (garden snails). In biology, a hermaphrodite is an organism that has reproductive organs normally associated with both male and female sexes.[1] Many taxonomic groups of an … Wikipedia
