Diseases

Disorders of Sex Development

In gonochoristic organisms, congenital conditions in which development of chromosomal, gonadal, or anatomical sex is atypical. Effects from exposure to abnormal levels of GONADAL HORMONES in the maternal environment, or disruption of the function of those hormones by ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS are included.

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Abstract

In gonochoristic organisms, congenital conditions in which development of chromosomal, gonadal, or anatomical sex is atypical. Effects from exposure to abnormal levels of GONADAL HORMONES in the maternal environment, or disruption of the function of those hormones by ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS are included.

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31 entry terms
  • Disorders of Sexual Development
  • Sex Development Disorders
  • Sexual Development Disorders
  • Sex Development Disorder
  • Sexual Development Disorder
  • Ambiguous Genitalia
  • Genital Ambiguity
  • Hermaphroditism
  • Intersex Conditions
  • Intersexuality
  • Pseudohermaphroditism
  • Sex Differentiation Disorders
  • Sexual Differentiation Disorders
  • Ambiguities, Genital
  • Ambiguity, Genital
  • Condition, Intersex
  • Conditions, Intersex
  • Differentiation Disorder, Sex
  • Differentiation Disorder, Sexual
  • Differentiation Disorders, Sex
  • Differentiation Disorders, Sexual
  • Disorder, Sex Differentiation
  • Disorder, Sexual Differentiation
  • Disorders, Sex Differentiation
  • Disorders, Sexual Differentiation
  • Genital Ambiguities
  • Genitalia, Ambiguous
  • Intersex Condition
  • Intersexualities
  • Sex Differentiation Disorder
  • Sexual Differentiation Disorder

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34 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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differentiate from SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; note entry term HERMAPHRODITISM: HERMAPHRODITISM, TRUE see OVOTESTICULAR DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT is also available

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2011(1966)

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WJ 101

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Disorders of Sex Development. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D012734. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D012734
  2. Disorders of Sex Development. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disorders_of_sex_development
  3. Disorders of Sex Development. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5282521