GONADAL DYSFUNCTIONS-YWK

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• Phenotypic, or genital, sex is based on theappearance of the external genitalia• Sexual ambiguity is present whenever there isdisagreement among these various criteria fordetermining sex.
Hermaphroditism andPseudohermaphroditism• The term true hermaphrodite implies the presence of bothovarian and testicular tissue.• In contrast, a pseudohermaphrodite represents a disagreementbetween the phenotypic and gonadal sex (i.e., a femalepseudohermaphrodite has ovaries but male external genitalia;• a male pseudohermaphrodite has testicular tissue but femaletypegenitalia).
Page 1 and 2: Gonadal dysfunctionsHermaphroditism
Page 3: Determination of SexDetermination o
Page 7 and 8: True Hermaphroditism• The presenc
Page 9 and 10: Ambiguous genitalia
Page 11 and 12: Male Pseudohermaphroditism• is ex
Page 13 and 14: Disorders of aberrations of sexchro
Page 15 and 16: Kleinfelters syndrome• There is i
Page 17 and 18: Kleinfelters syndrome• higher ris
Page 19 and 20: Turners syndrome• Approximately 5
Page 21 and 22: TURNER SYNDROME
Page 23: Turner syndrome• is the single mo

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