female pseudohermaphroditism

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female pseudohermaphroditism

[¦fē‚māl ¦sü·dō·hər¦maf·rə′dīd‚iz·əm]

(physiology)

gynandry

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2007) [4] DSD were most commonly classified into Female pseudohermaphroditism.

Diagnostic dilemmas of disorders of sexual development--a six year study at a paediatric referral centre

Female pseudohermaphroditism occurs when the genital ducts, external genitalia, and other aspects of phenotypic sex virilize in XX females.

Chapter 4: Sexual differentiation

3) By the late nineteenth century, a consensus emerged in medicine that gonadal histology was the most reliable marker of a person's "true sex" and that there were three classificatory types of hermaphroditism: male pseudohermaphroditism, female pseudohermaphroditism, and true hermaphroditism.