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.”

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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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