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pseudohermaphroditism


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

  • Enlargement may occur with pseudohermaphroditism (the "man"' or 'woman" has the genitals of the apparently opposite sex).
  • But many readers jumped to the conclusion that his was one of the not uncommon cases of pseudohermaphroditism (organs of one sex so malformed or concealed as to be mistaken for .
  • Statistics, he notes, "indicate that pseudohermaphroditism occurs once in 1,000 persons.

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