单词 | intersexuality |
释义 | intersexualityn. Biology. The state or condition of having or combining characteristics of both sexes; intersexual nature or character. Cf. intersexual adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > [noun] > state or condition of having characteristics of both sexes hermaphroditism1808 androgynism1823 hermaphrodism1828 androgynity1842 bisexuality1842 androgyny1852 bisexualism1865 pseudohermaphroditism1881 asexuality1886 virilism1896 bi-gender1912 intersexuality1916 sex intergrade1916 relative sexuality1926 ambisexuality1938 monoecy1949 testicular feminization (or feminizing)1953 1916 R. Goldschmidt in Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2 55 The degree of intersexuality depends of course upon the difference of the potencies. 1916 R. Goldschmidt in Amer. Naturalist 50 708 It seems advisable to use another term for these forms, which in general represent a definite step between the two sexes. The phenomenon shall therefore be called intersexuality. Further experiments now proved that intersexuality segregates, F2 giving normal and intersexual animals. 1930 G. R. de Beer Embryol. & Evol. iii. 22 A series of degrees of intersexuality can be established from very slight to complete sex-reversal. 1965 Punch 10 Nov. 691 Goat-breeders have tried to maximise hornlessness..but in so doing they have unwittingly increased the frequency of the gene for intersexuality. 2000 Sciences July 20/1 We scoured the medical literature for estimates of the frequency of various categories of intersexuality, from additional chromosomes to mixed gonads, hormones and genitalia. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1916 |
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