her·maph·ro·dit·ism

(hər-măf′rə-dī-tĭz′əm) also her·maph·ro·dism (-rə-dĭz′əm)

1. The presence of both male and female reproductive organs that is typical of certain plants and animals, as in a monoecious plant or an earthworm.

2. The presence in some humans and in some individuals of other animal species of both male and female reproductive organs and secondary sexual characteristics in the same individual.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

hermaphroditism

the presence on an individual body of both male and female sex organs. Also called androgynism, gynandrism, gynandry. — hermaphrodite, n. — hermaphroditic, adj.

her·maph·ro·dit·ism

n. hermafroditismo, condición de hermafrodita.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

hermaphroditism

n hermafroditismo

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The pig's condition, according to experts, is called hermaphroditism or having both female and male organs.

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This sequential hermaphroditism makes me wonder what we should properly call this wildflower.

Cowslip? Jack-in-the-pulpit? Virginia bluebell or Virginia cowslip (Mertensia virginica) White or large-flowered trillium (Trillium grandiflorum) Jack- (or Jill-) in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)

Disorders of sex development (DSD) are defined as congenital conditions in which there is discrepancy between chromosomal, gonadal and anatomical sex.5 The prevalence of genital anomalies is usually one in 300 births6 but the birth prevalence of true genital ambiguity may be as low as one in 5000 births.7 In 2006, the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society (LWPES) and the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) published a consensus statement on management of intersex disorders and proposed the term 'DSD' instead of terms like 'intersex', 'pseudohermaphroditism (PH)', 'hermaphroditism', 'sex reversal' etc.8 (Table).

Initial assessment of a child with suspected disorder of sex development

Particularly, the condition of having or produce of both male and female gametes by the same gonad (ovotestis or syngonic) occurs as a process (sexual differentiation), as well as a mode of sexuality (hermaphroditism) over lifespan of the invertebrates (Ghiselin, 1969; Warner, 1975).

An ovotestis event in the gonochoric sea urchin Loxechinus albus (Echinodermata: Echinoidea)

Hermaphroditism occurs when pigs are born with both male and female reproductive traits and organs.

Vet on call: Common birth defects in pigs

In his essay "Francois Villon," the great Russian poet Osip Mandelstam writes: "The lyrical poet is a hermaphrodite by nature, capable of limitless fissions in the name of his inner monologue." In an essay from the mid-eighties on Mandelstam & Bakhtin, "Dialogue as 'Lyrical Hermaphrodism,'" Svetlana Boym comments as follows: "Mandelstam's 'lyrical hermaphroditism' does not signify a Platonic ideal of androgynous wholeness, a reconciliation of two polarities.

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Based on histological analysis of the gonad, simultaneous hermaphroditism was not observed in Saxidomus purpuratus.

IMPLICATIONS FOR FISHERIES MANAGEMENT: SEX RATIO, SIZE AT SEXUAL MATURITY, AND REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE OF SAXIDOMUS PURPURATUS (BIVALVIA: VENERIDAE) IN KOREA

They may exhibit gonochorism (fixed separate sexes), simultaneous (or synchronous) or sequential hermaphroditism. (6) With the exception of some species of frogs, teleost fish species are the only known vertebrates with sequentially hermaphroditic representatives, (7) a reproductive strategy that has multiple evolutionary origins in fishes, having been reported in 27 taxonomic families spread across nine orders.

Where's the Switch?

Abnormal sex differentiation: Hermaphroditism and gonadal dysgenesis.

Female pseudohermaphroditism: Congenital adrenal hyperplasia presenting with diffuse hyperpigmentation

Molecular phylogeny of shrimps from the genus Lysmata (Caridea: Hippolytidae): the evolutionary origins of protandric simultaneous hermaphroditism and social monogamy.

Embryonic Development in the Peppermint Shrimp, Lysmata boggessi (Caridea: Lysmatidae)

Ovotesticular disorder is an extremely rare cause of disorder of sexual development (DSD), once known as true hermaphroditism. Patients with ovotesticular DSD have both testicular tissue, including seminiferous tubules, and ovarian tissue, including ovarian follicles.

Haploinsufficiency of the DMRT Gene Cluster in a Case with 46,XY Ovotesticular Disorder of Sexual Development

The disorders of sex development are now broadly grouped into three main diagnostic categories namely 46 XY DSD (previously called male Pseudo hermaphroditism), 46 XX DSD (previously called female Pseudo hermaphroditism) and sex chromosome DSD (previously called true hermaphroditism).

SPECTRUM OF XY DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT IN PAKISTAN

Noun	1.	hermaphroditism - congenital condition in which external genitalia and internal sex organs have both male and female characteristics hermaphrodism birth defect, congenital abnormality, congenital anomaly, congenital defect, congenital disorder - a defect that is present at birth
	2.	hermaphroditism - showing characteristics of both sexes androgyny, bisexuality sexuality, gender - the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"