androgen insensitivity syndrome
noun
Note: A person affected with androgen insensitivity syndrome has the physical appearance of a female and the X and Y chromosomes of a male with external genitalia that are female or ambiguous, no uterus, and usually normal but undescended testes. Androgen insensitivity syndrome is inherited as an X-linked recessive trait requiring that only one parent pass on a copy of the defective gene on an X chromosome to male offspring.
called also testicular feminization, testicular feminization syndrome
Examples of androgen insensitivity syndrome in a Sentence
Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2012
Sean Saifa Wall is an intersex activist and researcher who was born with an intersex variation called androgen insensitivity syndrome, which occurs when a person who has XY chromosomes is resistant to hormones called androgens.
—Meghan McDonough, Scientific American, 24 Aug. 2022
Two of his nine siblings had undergone similar operations, but his relatives never talked about the fact that androgen insensitivity syndrome, a genetic intersex condition, ran in the family.
—Kate Sosin, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2020
She was born with androgen insensitivity syndrome, a condition that caused her to have external female anatomy and, internally, undescended testes instead of a uterus.
—Diane Stopyra, Marie Claire, 5 July 2017
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androgen insensitivity syndrome
nounNote: A person affected with androgen insensitivity syndrome has the physical appearance of a female and the X and Y chromosomes of a male with external genitalia that are female or ambiguous, no uterus, and usually normal but undescended testes. Androgen insensitivity syndrome is inherited as an X-linked recessive trait requiring that only one parent pass on a copy of the defective gene on an X chromosome to male offspring.
Ariel Levy, The New Yorkercalled also testicular feminization, testicular feminization syndrome
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