Definition of "pseudohermaphrodite" [pseudohermaphrodite]

• One that possesses the internal reproductive organs of one sex while exhibiting some of the external physical characteristics of the opposite sex. (noun)

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• "There are an unusually high number of male pseudohermaphrodite births in Gaza neighborhood of Jabalya in part, doctors say, because it is customary in this socially conservative society for cousins to marry each other."
• "In other words, before even seeing me, Luce was able to make an educated guess that I was a male pseudohermaphrodite — genetically male but appearing otherwise, with 5-alpha-reductase deficiency syndrome."
• "We have heard of a recent trustworthy account of a pregnancy and delivery in a girl who had been impregnated by a bed-fellow who on examination proved to be a male pseudohermaphrodite."