See Also: Androgen hermaphroditism(health)
Hermaphroditism(medicine)
hermaphroditism(encyclopedia)
Hermaphroditism(health)
hermaphroditism(dictionary)
True hermaphroditism(medicine)
male hermaphroditism(medicine)
transverse hermaphroditism(medicine)
unilateral hermaphroditism(medicine)
adrenal hermaphroditism(medicine)

Androgen hermaphroditism (health)


Androgen-induced hermaphroditism is a syndrome of hermaphroditic birth defect of the sex organs induced in the 46, XY gonadally female fetus by an excess of masculinizing hormone transmitted from the mother through the placenta. The syndrome may be experimentally induced in animals by injection of the hormone testosterone, whereas in human beings it is adventitious, the source of the hormone being a maternal (possibly placental) hormone-producing tumor.