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pseudohermaphroditism

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun False hermaphroditism; an appearance of hermaphroditism resulting from a monstrous conformation of the external genitals in sexed individuals. The usual conditions are extensive hypospadia of the male organs, or hypertrophy of the clitoris of the female.

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  • noun A condition in which an individual has the internal reproductive organs of one sex but the external genitalia of the other.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun congenital condition in which a person has external genitalia of one sex and internal sex organs of the other sex

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Examples

  • One major problem was unfairly excluding women who had a birth defect involving gonads and external genitalia i.e., male pseudohermaphroditism. ...

    I am fevered and do the R word. Plus Intersex: 3 million USA women gagged by society, by us. Elizabeth McClung 2010

  • Intersex is a term most commonly used to refer to people with male pseudohermaphroditism.

    Intersexuality in Gaza « Gender Across Borders 2009

  • In the 1970s Dorner classified homosexuality as a "central nervous pseudohermaphroditism," meaning that he considered male homosexuals to have brains with the mating centers of women but, of course, the bodies of men.

    Homosexuality and Biology 1997

  • In the 1970s Dorner classified homosexuality as a "central nervous pseudohermaphroditism," meaning that he considered male homosexuals to have brains with the mating centers of women but, of course, the bodies of men.

    Homosexuality and Biology 1997

  • Hermaphroditism (the reality of which has only of late been recognized and is still disputed) and pseudohermaphroditism; in their physical variations are fully dealt with in the great work, richly illustrated, _Hermaphroditismus beim Menschen_, by F.L. von Neugebauer, of Warsaw.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899

  • In most such cases, however, we are probably concerned with some form of pseudohermaphroditism, and the "clitoris" may more properly be regarded as a penis; there is thus no inversion involved. [

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899

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