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Definitions of sexual characteristic
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)
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