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Definition of "pseudohermaphroditism" []

  • A condition in which an individual has the internal reproductive organs of one sex but the external genitalia of the other. (noun)

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Use "pseudohermaphroditism" in a sentence
  • "One major problem was unfairly excluding women who had a birth defect involving gonads and external genitalia i.e., male pseudohermaphroditism. ..."
  • "Intersex is a term most commonly used to refer to people with male pseudohermaphroditism."
  • "In the 1970s Dorner classified homosexuality as a "central nervous pseudohermaphroditism," meaning that he considered male homosexuals to have brains with the mating centers of women but, of course, the bodies of men."