Meaning

Seeming to have both male and female attributes..

Definitions by Sense

1. Seeming to have both male and female attributes.
2. Synonym of pseudohermaphrodite.

Example Sentences

Gynandroid males have in addition to the male set of external genitalia, one or more reproductive appendages resembling a short ovipositor sheath or even a sting.

If, in respect to a certain gene or gene complex X, the diploid female parent was heterozygous, for example Xᵃ Xᵇ, then the gynandroid mosaics were haploid Xᵃ in one part of their body and haploid Xᵇ in the other.

The three cases referred to by the authors were all of the gynandroid type in whom testicles in different stages of atrophy were found. […] Such a discovery obliged the doctors to reverse their diagnosis – instead they had a case of a ‘pseudohermafrodita ginandroide’ (gynandroid pseudo-hermaphrodite) or a ‘niña pseudohermafrodita’ (pseudo-hermaphrodite girl).

The regular gynandroid has ovaries proved to be so histologically, with external organs of the male type, the urethra running in the clitoris (as in lemurs), a well-marked perineal raphe, and no vulva.

Auvray (Revue de gynéc. et de chir. abd., April, 1912) writes about a gynandroid or pseudo-hermaphrodite woman aged 72, who died of intestinal obstruction after refusing surgical aid.

Pozzi has recently described an example which he removed from a pseudohermaphrodite (a gynandroid) aged thirty.

Unfortunately there were no genetic markers in the parents producing these gynandroids.

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• gynandroids

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