- nuclear sex
- the sex as determined on the basis of the presence or absence of sex chromatin in somatic cells, its presence normally indicating the XX (female) genotype, and its absence the XY (male) genotype.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
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