hermaphrodism
Americannoun
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Such cases are not examples of hermaphrodism, but of incomplete embryological differentiation.
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In connection with hermaphrodism it has been shown that the males who have been supposed to be so malformed were really, in most instances, but cases of hypospadias.
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"Admit, at any rate, that this cerebral hermaphrodism, self-fecundation, is a distinguished vice at least—being the privilege of the artist—a vice reserved for the elect, inaccessible to the mob."
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Is there not a seeming reference to this thought of divine hermaphrodism in the well-known passage of Genesis?
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In these cases the external male genitals resemble the female, and they are often wrongly regarded as cases of hermaphrodism.
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