hermaphrodism

[her-maf-ruh-diz-uhm]

noun

1. hermaphroditism.

Example Sentences

To our shame, even nonbelievers such as Gore Vidal and Michel Foucault understood this.Foucault once said, “We are creating a hermaphrodism — a false species.”

From Washington Times

Such cases are not examples of hermaphrodism, but of incomplete embryological differentiation.

From Project Gutenberg

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."

From Project Gutenberg

Is there not a seeming reference to this thought of divine hermaphrodism in the well-known passage of Genesis?

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