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hermaphroditism

[her-maf-ruh-dahyt-iz-uhm]

noun

  1. Biology.,  the condition of being a hermaphrodite.



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Known as sequential hermaphroditism, the largest females turn into males.

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Would this do the trick: “See your doctor immediately if you experience spontaneous hermaphroditism.”

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The natural world offers many curiosities, but hermaphroditism—the presence of both male and female reproductive organs—may be among the most peculiar.

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Dreger was studying hermaphroditism at the time, focusing in particular on what men of science in late-19th-century Britain and France made of the condition.

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In those days he saw mostly kids with adrenogenital syndrome, the most common form of female hermaphroditism.

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