What's the difference between androgyny and hermaphroditism?

Androgyny


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Androgynism

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Androgyny had a significant main effect on spatial ability, the more androgynous subjects being superior.
  • (2) Likewise, androgyny scores did not distinguish individuals in traditional careers from those in non-traditional careers.
  • (3) As in previous studies, men in this study scored higher than women on masculinity and androgyny and lower on femininity.
  • (4) There were significant correlations between age and both androgyny and n Ach scores, but no significant correlation between androgyny and n Ach scores.
  • (5) Data from a survey of 58 gay men and 58 lesbians are compared to college men and women on Spence and Helmreich's (1978) Personality Attributes Questionnaire measures of masculinity, femininity, and androgyny.
  • (6) Both groups showed a similar response pattern on the Embedded Figures Test but differed on the Draw-A-Person Test, The Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey, and the Bem Androgyny Scale.
  • (7) Occupation was found not to be a significant variable in explaining variance among the four groups on their masculinity, femininity, and androgyny scores.
  • (8) This study assessed possible influences of handedness, sex, familial sinistrality (FS), and self-rated androgyny on language laterality and on spatial and verbal test performances of 225 right-handers and 134 left-handers.
  • (9) There was a significant difference in psychological androgyny when comparing students by degree program.
  • (10) Each of the several M-F measures was related significantly to sexual orientation in the combined-sex group, and the combination of the MMPI Mf scale and the Bem Androgyny Score accounted for a small but significantly greater portion of the variance in self-rated sexual orientation than did the MMPI Mf scale alone.
  • (11) The study involved 338 students enrolled in all six allied health professions programs at Weber State College in Ogden, Utah, who completed the Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI), a measure of psychological androgyny.
  • (12) With its teen address, deep androgyny and dancehall imperative, the song was very much in line with previous Bowie hits such as "John, I'm Only Dancing" and "The Jean Genie".
  • (13) Sex-role identity for both groups was near the adolescent girl norms for both Femininity and Masculinity, with virilized CAH girls showing slightly higher Androgyny scores.
  • (14) Androgyny measures differed only by gender, not by sexual orientation.
  • (15) Teased at school for her “skinny frame”, her angular androgyny is well received in the modelling world, and she appears on the covers of Vogue and Stern .
  • (16) These results indicate that the BSRI Androgyny score reflects a bipolar dimension.
  • (17) Related to the issue of sexism is the concept of psychological androgyny, or the lack of tendency toward masculine or feminine traits.
  • (18) Results indicated that students in all dental hygiene programs are most frequently sex-typed as feminine, with androgyny as the second most frequently sex-typed characteristic.
  • (19) Five hypothetical outcomes in androgyny research and an example involving actual data are presented.
  • (20) Androgyny scores (3 x biacromial breadth - bicristal breadth) were calculated for 66 female track and field five event categories and 76 female non-athletes.

Hermaphroditism


Definition:

  • (n.) The union of the two sexes in the same individual, or the combination of some of their characteristics or organs in one individual.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Several additional groups of muscle cells of more limited mass and spatial distribution include the vulval muscles of hermaphrodites, the male sex muscles, the anal-intestinal muscles, and the gonadal sheath of the hermaphrodite.
  • (2) These cells are also present in hermaphrodites, where they have minor structural roles in the rectum.
  • (3) Male sex determination in sporadic, and familial Y-ve XX males and true hermaphrodites is likely to be the result of mutation in an X-linked TDF gene and its consequent escape from the constraints of X-inactivation.
  • (4) Marking with feces was important in hermaphrodite-hermaphrodite interactions.
  • (5) We discuss the benefice of a such therapeutic option in the true hermaphroditism lately diagnosed recording to organic and psychological data.
  • (6) We propose that the wild-type xol-1 gene product promotes male development by ensuring that genes (or gene products) directing hermaphrodite sex determination and dosage compensation are inactive in XO animals.
  • (7) I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite."
  • (8) During induction of the Caenorhabditis elegans hermaphrodite vulva by the anchor cell of the gonad, six multipotent vulval precursor cells (VPCs) have two distinct fates: three VPCs generate the vulva and the other three VPCs generate nonspecialized hypodermis.
  • (9) An XX true hermaphrodite was examined for the presence of Y-specific sequences using Southern-blotting and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) techniques.
  • (10) The hypothesis provides an explanation for the observed bilateral asymmetry of gonadal differentiation in human hermaphrodites in terms of the bilateral asymmetry of growth of human fetal gonads.
  • (11) In true hermaphroditism ovarian or testicular tissue is present in the same patient; in false hermaphroditism female or male organs predominate; and in transsexualism only one way of alteration is possible i.e.
  • (12) The authors report the cases of two new families of true hermaphroditism (4 cases) defined by the coexistence of both testicular and ovarian tissues.
  • (13) A mutation in him-8 IV was identified that severely reduced recombination between the two X chromosomes in hermaphrodites and between mnDp73 and the X chromosome in males.
  • (14) In hermaphrodites, mnDp72 and mnDp73 promoted meiotic X nondisjunction and recombined with an X chromosome in the unc-1-dpy-3 interval at frequencies comparable to that found for X-X recombination; mnDp72(X;IV) also promoted trisomy for chromosome IV.
  • (15) Furthermore, the germ-line specificity of the fem-3(gf) mutant phenotype and the late temperature-sensitive period suggest that, in the wild-type XX hermaphrodite, fem-3 is negatively regulated so that the hermaphrodite stops making sperm and starts making oocytes.
  • (16) An unusual case of hermaphroditism in a 4 to 5-year-old roe is described.
  • (17) and Grassi Milano observed that when the female gonads were cultured without steroid or gonadotrophic hormones at the start of differentiation an hermaphrodite left ovary and a male right one were formed.
  • (18) Loss-of-function mutations in the spe-11 gene in Caenorhabditis elegans result in a paternal-effect embryonic-lethal phenotype: fertilization of wild-type oocytes by sperm from homozygous spe-11 mutant males leads to abnormal zygotic development, whereas oocytes from homozygous spe-11 hermaphrodites when fertilized by wild-type sperm develop normally.
  • (19) In wild-type Caenorhabditis elegans there are two sexes, self-fertilizing hermaphrodites (XX) and males (XO).
  • (20) Six out of 22 can transform XO animals into fertile females or hermaphrodites, whereas the remainder cause partial feminization.

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