androgen-induced hermaphroditism: 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.
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