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Development Variations
Development Variations (Health Education · Genital Development) — "There are some variations when actual physical sexual development does not follow expected p…
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- Variations in physical sexual development
- Hermaphroditism is one reported variation and occurs in two forms.
- True hermaphroditism is an extremely rare condition involving both male and female reproductive organs in one body.
- The organs may include the penis, testicles, prostate gland, vagina, uterus, and ovaries, functioning to some degree.
- Pseudohermaphroditism, or false or near hermaphroditism, is a rare condition involving some male or female reproductive organs in one body.
- Neither male nor female organs are completely present and/or fully functioning.
- Fetal sexual development does not occur uniformly.
- Five common sexual development variations are reported among newborns.
- Turner’s syndrome
- Klinefelter’s syndrome
- Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
- Fetally Androgenized Females
- DHT-deficient Males
- In most fetal development, sexual development is predictable and originates from nearly identical tissues.
