Definition that contains sexual characteristic
- estrogen a general term for female steroid sex hormones that are secreted by the ovary and responsible for typical female sexual characteristics
- hermaphrodite one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made
- oestrogen a general term for female steroid sex hormones that are secreted by the ovary and responsible for typical female sexual characteristics
- androgen male sex hormone that is produced in the testes and responsible for typical male sexual characteristics
- pseudohermaphrodite having internal reproductive organs of one sex and external sexual characteristics of the other sex
- sex-change operation surgical procedures and hormonal treatments designed to alter a person's sexual characteristics so that the resemble those of the opposite sex
- intersexual having sexual characteristics intermediate between those of male and female
- androgyne one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made
- androgenic hormone male sex hormone that is produced in the testes and responsible for typical male sexual characteristics
- masculinization the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction)