pseudohermaphrodite

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Etymology

From pseudo- +‎ hermaphrodite.

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Noun

pseudohermaphrodite (plural pseudohermaphrodites)

  1. An individual that has the external genitalia of one sex, but the internal sex organs of the other.

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pseudohermaphrodite (not comparable)

  1. Having external genitalia of one sex, but the internal sex organs of the other.
    • 1932, Gregorio Marañón, translated by Warre Bradley Wells, The Evolution of Sex and Intersexual Conditions, page 106:
      In the case described by Recasens himself of a pseudohermaphrodite woman there was a formation of testicular appearance on the labia majora; but its histological examination demonstrated that this was not a gonad, but a glandular mass of a nature which defied diagnosis.
    • 1966, Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease, Endocrines and the Central Nervous System, page 431:
      The chief psychologic and psychiatric problems encountered in the adrenogenital syndrome are those associated with the sex orientation of untreated and undiagnosed pseudohermaphrodite women (33).
    • 1996, Roger S. Kirby, Timothy J. Christmas, Michael K. Brawer, Prostate Cancer, Mosby, →ISBN, page 27:
      However, prostate cancer does not appear to occur in a cohort of pseudohermaphrodite men in whom 5-alpha reductase is absent.
    • 2010, Tom Smith, Coping Successfully with Prostate Cancer, 2nd edition, Sheldon Press, →ISBN:
      They form one group of the pseudohermaphrodite men mentioned above: their prostate glands remain in the pre-pubertal state, and never become cancerous.

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