pseudohermaphrodite en · ADJ
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Etymology
Etymology tree Pre-Greekder.? Ancient Greek ψεύδω (pseúdō) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Proto-Hellenic *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ής (-ḗs) Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs)der. Middle English pseudo- English pseudo- English hermaphrodite English pseudohermaphrodite From pseudo- + hermaphrodite.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Having external genitalia of one sex, but the internal sex organs of the other.
However, prostate cancer does not appear to occur in a cohort of pseudohermaphrodite men in whom 5-alpha reductase is absent.
1996, Roger S. Kirby, Timothy J. Christmas, Michael K. Brawer, Prostate Cancer, Mosby, →ISBN, page 27:The chief psychologic and psychiatric problems encountered in the adrenogenital syndrome are those associated with the sex orientation of untreated and undiagnosed pseudohermaphrodite women (33).
1966, Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease, Endocrines and the Central Nervous System, page 431:They form one group of the pseudohermaphrodite men mentioned above: their prostate glands remain in the pre-pubertal state, and never become cancerous.
2010, Tom Smith, Coping Successfully with Prostate Cancer, 2nd edition, Sheldon Press, →ISBN:In the case described by Recasens himself of a pseudohermaphrodite woman there was a formation of testicular appearance on the labia majora; but its histological examination demonstrated that this was not a gonad, but a glandular mass of a nature which defied diagnosis.
1932, Gregorio Marañón, translated by Warre Bradley Wells, The Evolution of Sex and Intersexual Conditions, page 106:
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