PSEUDOHERMAPHRODITISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pseudohermaphroditism mean? 

• PSEUDOHERMAPHRODITISM (noun)
  The noun PSEUDOHERMAPHRODITISM has 1 sense:

1. congenital condition in which a person has external genitalia of one sex and internal sex organs of the other sex

  Familiarity information: PSEUDOHERMAPHRODITISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PSEUDOHERMAPHRODITISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Congenital condition in which a person has external genitalia of one sex and internal sex organs of the other sex

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("pseudohermaphroditism" is a kind of...):

birth defect; congenital abnormality; congenital anomaly; congenital defect; congenital disorder (a defect that is present at birth)

 Context examples 

Deficiency can result in male pseudohermaphroditism with gynecomastia.

(HSD17B3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)