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gynandroid en · ADJ

Etymology

From gyn- + andr- + -oid.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Seeming to have both male and female attributes.
   • Gynandroid males have in addition to the male set of external genitalia, one or more reproductive appendages resembling a short ovipositor sheath or even a sting. (Can we date this quote?), Pamphlets on Biology:
   • If, in respect to a certain gene or gene complex X, the diploid female parent was heterozygous, for example Xᵃ Xᵇ, then the gynandroid mosaics were haploid Xᵃ in one part of their body and haploid Xᵇ in the other. 1968, Curt Stern, Genetic Mosaics and Other Essays, Harvard University Press, page 38:
   • The three cases referred to by the authors were all of the gynandroid type in whom testicles in different stages of atrophy were found. […] Such a discovery obliged the doctors to reverse their diagnosis – instead they had a case of a ‘pseudohermafrodita ginandroide’ (gynandroid pseudo-hermaphrodite) or a ‘niña pseudohermafrodita’ (pseudo-hermaphrodite girl). 2009, Richard Cleminson, Francisco Vázquez García, Hermaphroditism, Medical Science and Sexual Identity in Spain, 1850–1960, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN, pages 144 and 187:

gynandroid en · NOUN

Etymology

From gyn- + andr- + -oid.

Meanings

1. Synonym of pseudohermaphrodite.
   • Unfortunately there were no genetic markers in the parents producing these gynandroids. 1988, Daniel S. Grosch, “Genetics Research on Braconid Wasps”, in E. W. Caspari, John G. Scandalios, editors, Advances in Genetics, volume 25, Academic Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 114:
   • Pozzi has recently described an example which he removed from a pseudohermaphrodite (a gynandroid) aged thirty. 1913, Surgery, page 125:
   • The regular gynandroid has ovaries proved to be so histologically, with external organs of the male type, the urethra running in the clitoris (as in lemurs), a well-marked perineal raphe, and no vulva. 1911, British Medical Journal, page 694:
   • Auvray (Revue de gynéc. et de chir. abd., April, 1912) writes about a gynandroid or pseudo-hermaphrodite woman aged 72, who died of intestinal obstruction after refusing surgical aid. 1912, Pacific Medical Journal, page 429:

Forms

Coordinates

androgynoid

Synonyms

pseudohermaphrodite