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disorder of sex development en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A medical condition whereby the development of chromosomal or anatomical sex is in some way atypical; an intersex condition.
   • Recently, growing patient and parental concerns about the stigma associated with the term intersex, along with advances in treatment and diagnosis, have led to the adoption of the term disorders of sex development (DSD) in its place. 2008, Harvey J. Makadon (Ed.), The Fenway Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health, page 393:
   • Parents of children with these kinds of conditions — known as intersex conditions, or differences or disorders of sex development (DSDs) — often face difficult decisions about whether to bring up their child as a boy or a girl. 2015, Claire Ainsworth, ‘Sex redefined’, Nature, volume 518, number 7539:
   • There are also several states of disorders of sex development in males, namely gonadal dysgenesis or defects in androgen biosynthesis which cause insufficient synthesis of androgens and hypoandrogenisation in consequence. 2009, Konrad Janowski, Biopsychosocial Aspects of Health and Disease, volume 1, page 69:

Forms

Relateds

intersex

Synonyms

DSD

Translations (3)

fi sukupuolen kehityksen häiriö (condition) · cmn 性別分化障礙 /性别分化障碍 (condition) · fi sukupuolikehityksen häiriö (condition)