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pseudohermaphrodite


  • n  someone having external genitalia of one sex and internal sex organs of the other sex; not a true hermaphrodite because there is no ambiguity in the sex of the external genitalia and hence no question about gender at birth
  • s  having internal reproductive organs of one sex and external sexual characteristics of the other sex

  • These defects may sometimes be remedied by surgeons to bring the pseudohermaphrodite into line with its glandular sex.
  • Nevertheless, papers ran semi-learned stories sprinkled with such terms as hermaphrodite and pseudohermaphrodite (see MEDICINE), and reporters manfully tried to translate the .
  • He is not a pseudohermaphrodite, with the organs of his own sex so unusually formed that they are mistaken for those of the other.

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