hermaphroditism

How To Use hermaphroditism In A Sentence

• National Institutes of Health, intersex, once referred to as hermaphroditism, is a group of conditions where there is a discrepancy between the external genitals and the internal genitals (the testes and ovaries). FOXNews.com
• But a new film, addressing such potentially incendiary topics as Islamic fundamentalism and hermaphroditism, has become an unexpected hit in the country. Week in Words
• This discovery proves for the first time the possibility of an evolutionary transition from hermaphroditism to dioecy. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
• However, as one moves higher on the evolutionary ladder, this useful hermaphroditism becomes increasingly rare.
• Now I know that the hermaphroditism of pulmonates had been determined long before Lamarck was active in the early 19th century. Who discovered that pulmonate snails and slugs are hermaphrodites?
• Among the other subjects to which Müller devoted careful and successful research may be mentioned: reflex action, the chemical composition of blood plasma, the presence of chondrin in cartilage, hermaphroditism in human beings, the minute structure and origin of glands in man and animals, the lymph hearts of amphibia, and those ducts of the preliminary kidney in the foetus which have since been called by his name. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
• In evolutionary terms, hermaphroditism is thus twice as efficient a reproductive strategy as sex.
• She started as a historian of science, working on the history of medical treatment of hermaphroditism (now called intersex).
• His findings are clear: frogs, who exhibit the same reproductive hormone vulnerability as humans, experience retarded gonadal development and hermaphroditism when exposed to low levels of atrazine. Timothy LaSalle: Thirsting for Truth: No "Safe" Level of Atrazine
• Hirschfeld emphasizes the fact that neither hermaphroditism nor eunuchoidism is commonly associated with homosexuality, and that a large proportion of the cases of transvestism, as defined by him, are heterosexual. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion