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Hermaphroditism

Known as: intersexuality, herms, HERMAPHRODITE 
An historical term for a variety of abnormalities in sex development that lead to anomalies in the reproductive tract and/or external genitalia.
National Institutes of Health

Related topics

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17 relations
Androgen-Insensitivity SyndromeCDISC SEND Nonclinical DART Sex TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium TerminologyEndocrine System Diseases

Broader (4)

Congenital AbnormalityCongenital DisordersDisorders of Sex DevelopmentUrogenital Abnormalities

Narrower (2)

Testicular FeminizationTrue Hermaphroditism (disorder)

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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Intersex and oocyte atresia in a mussel population from the Biosphere's Reserve of Urdaibai (Bay of Biscay).
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Mating patterns, pollen dispersal, and the ecological maternal neighbourhood in a Prunus mahaleb L. population
Gender polymorphism, plant–animal interactions, and environmental heterogeneity are the three important sources of variation in… 
Review
1999
Review
1999
Programmed cell death in the nematode C. elegans.
Programmed cell death is a common feature during animal development. In the nematode C. elegans, more than 12 genes have been… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Metallothionein-Like Protein: Is It an Efficient Biomarker of Metal Contamination? A Case Study Based on Fish From the Tunisian Coast
Abstract. The aim of this work was to assess the relative importance of natural fluctuations in metallothionein-like protein… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
How pollinator-mediated mating varies with population size in plants
In most higher plants sexual interactions are mediated by animal pollinators that affect the number and differential reproductive… 
Review
1989
Review
1989
Laboratory induction of intersexuality in the mosquitofish,Gambusia affinis, using paper mill effluent
Intersexual traits have been described in a wild population of mosquitofish in a northwest Florida (USA) stream which receives… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
A female-specific lethal lesion in an X-linked positive regulator of the Drosophila sex determination gene, Sex-lethal.
Characterization of a partial-loss-of-function, female-specific lethal mutation has identified an X-linked genetic element (1-34… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
The role of the lateral lobes in the control of growth and reproduction in the hermaphrodite freshwater snail Lymnaea stagnalis.
Highly Cited
1969
Highly Cited
1969
Genetic intersexuality in goats.
Review
1957
Review
1957
Sex chromatin pattern in seminiferous tubule dysgenesis and other testicular disorders: relationship to true hermaphrodism and to Klinefelter's syndrome, with a review of gonadal ontogenesis.
THE discovery by Ban and his associates of a sex difference in the interphase nuclei of somatic cells in certain mammals (2–6… 
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