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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.