Klinefelter's syndrome
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Klinefelter's syndrome
[′klīn‚fel·tərz ‚sin‚drōm] (medicine)
A complex of symptoms associated with hypogonadism in males as an accompaniment of an anomaly of the sex chromosomes; somatic cells are found to have a Y chromosome and more than one X chromosome.
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