hermaphroditism, the condition of having both male and female reproductive organs.
The androgyne (from the Greek andros, "man," and gune, "woman") is a creature that is half male and half female.
Or a person may be born with genitals that seem to be in-between the usual male and female types—for example, a girl may be born with a noticeably large clitoris, or lacking a vaginal opening, or a boy may be born with a notably small penis, or with a scrotum that is divided so that it has formed more like labia.
True hermaphroditism is a rare form of intersex anomaly where both male and female gonads are present. True hermaphrodites diagnosed in the past have been preferentially reared as males.
True hermaphroditism is a rare intersex condition in which an individual has both testicular and ovarian tissue. The largest numbers of cases have been reported from Africa and Europe.
The most common gonad variant found in a true hermaphrodite is an ovotestis, with 50% being found in ovarian position on the right hand side. Ovaries are present in 33% of cases while testicles are found in 22% [4].
Background: There are 11 reported cases of pregnancy in true hermaphrodites, but none with advanced genetic testing. All known fetuses have been male. Case: A true hermaphrodite with a spontaneous pregnancy prenatally known to have a remaining portion of a right ovotestis, delivered a male neonate.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: True hermaphroditism is defined as the presence of both male and female gonadal tissue in the same individual. Pregnancy in true hermaphrodites is rare. There are ten previously reported cases of pregnancy in true hermaphrodites with no reports on antenatal management.
Hermaphrodites self-reproduce through internal self-fertilization with their own sperm and can outcross with males.
There is a hypothetical scenario, in which it could be possible for a human to self-fertilize. If a human chimera is formed from a male and female zygote fusing into a single embryo, giving an individual functional gonadal tissue of both types, such self-fertilization is feasible.
Intersex traits might be apparent when a person's born, but they might not appear until later (during puberty or even adulthood). You may never notice their intersex traits externally and you might only find out about them after a surgery or imaging test.
It is possible that bones not belonging to the two binaries may vary from normal development in the case of intersex humans. When forensic anthropologists find human remains, they can almost always identify sex right away if certain bones are present.
Hermaphroditism is usually identified by gonad morphology; there are three main groups or categories. One is synchronous hermaphrodites, in which mature testicular and ovarian tissues are present at the same time, and both produce sperm and ova, respectively.
Intersex is a group of conditions in which there is a discrepancy between the external genitals and the internal genitals (the testes and ovaries). The older term for this condition is hermaphroditism.
Non-binary: An adjective describing a person who does not identify exclusively as a man or a woman. Non-binary people may identify as being both a man and a woman, somewhere in between, or as falling completely outside these categories. While many also identify as transgender, not all non-binary people do.
A hermaphrodite is a person (or plant or animal) that has both male and female sexual organs. Hermaphrodites are rare. This is an unusual word for an unusual condition: being a boy and a girl at the same time. This happens to a small number of people who have the reproductive organs of both men and women.
Some intersex people have both testes and ovaries. You may be able to get pregnant on your own, if you also have a uterus. However, if you have testes, they may be releasing more testosterone than would be optimal for conception and pregnancy.
An individual with 46, XX hermaphroditism has two XX chromosomes and the ovaries of a woman, but has external genitalia that appear to be male. This type is usually caused by the excessive exposure of the female fetus to male hormones in the womb.
C. elegans hermaphrodites reproduce by internal self-fertilization, so that copulation with males is not required for species propagation. The hermaphroditic mode of reproduction could potentially relax selection for genes that optimize male mating behavior.
True hermaphrodites have recognizable ovarian and testicular tissue. A uterus is always present, but the internal genitalia otherwise vary greatly, often including both male and female structures.
It is estimated that up to 1.7 percent of the population has an intersex trait and that approximately 0.5 percent of people have clinically identifiable sexual or reproductive variations.
All human individuals—whether they have an XX, an XY, or an atypical sex chromosome combination—begin development from the same starting point. During early development the gonads of the fetus remain undifferentiated; that is, all fetal genitalia are the same and are phenotypically female.
An individual could be a female or a male (with typical feminine or masculine external genitalia, respectively), a female or male pseudohermaphrodite, or a true hermaphrodite.
True hermaphroditism must be distinguished from a false one: true hermaphrodites have both female and male gonads (or gonadal tissue), false hermaphrodites are unisexual, but their sex organs resemble those of the opposite sex.
Under optimal conditions, an adult hermaphrodite will lay 4-10 eggs/hour.