English word senses marked with topical category "Intersex"
Parent categories: Gender, LGBTQ, Biology, Psychology, Sociology, Sexuality, Sciences, Social sciences, Human behaviour, Sex, Society, Human, Reproduction, Life, Nature
Total 81 word senses
- AFAB (Phrase) Acronym of assigned female at birth.
- AFAB (Adjective) Acronym of assigned female at birth.
- AFAB (Noun) An AFAB person.
- AGAB (Noun) Initialism of assigned gender at birth.
- AIS (Noun) Initialism of Australian Illawarra Shorthorn (cattle breed).
- AMAB (Phrase) Acronym of assigned male at birth.
- AMAB (Adjective) Acronym of assigned male at birth.
- AMAB (Noun) An AMAB person.
- DSD (Proper name) Initialism of Defence Signals Directorate: an Australian government intelligence agency responsible for signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information security (INFOSEC).
- GLBTI (Adjective) Initialism of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender/transsexual and intersex. Alternative form of LGBTI
- Hermaphroditus (Proper name) A male Aphrodite (Aphroditus), represented as a herm with a phallus, the symbol of fertility.
- Klinefelter (Noun) A person with Klinefelter syndrome.
- Klinefelter syndrome (Noun) A genetic condition in which a person is born with two X chromosomes and one Y chromosome.
- LGBTI (Adjective) Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual and intersex.
- LGBTI+ (Adjective) Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, intersex etc.
- LGBTIQ (Adjective) Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, intersex and queer/questioning.
- LGBTQI (Adjective) Abbreviation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning (or: queer), intersex.
- LGBTQIA (Adjective) Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, queer/questioning, intersex, and allied/allies/asexual/aromantic/agender.
- LGBTQQIA (Adjective) Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transexual, queer, questioning, intersex, and allied/asexual/aromantic/agender.
- LGBTQQIAAPP (Adjective) Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual/agender, allied, pansexual and polyamorous/polysexual.
- LGBTTQQIAAP (Adjective) Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual/aromantic, ally, and pansexual.
- PAIS (Noun) Initialism of partial androgen insensitivity syndrome.
- PMDS (Noun) Initialism of persistent Müllerian duct syndrome.
- QUILTBAG (Adjective) Acronym of Queer/Questioning, Undecided, Intersex, Lesbian, Trans (Transgender/Transsexual), Bisexual, Asexual, and/or Gay/Genderqueer.
- Turner (Proper name) A placename.; A number of places in the United States:; A town and census-designated place therein, in Androscoggin County, Maine.
- Turner (Proper name) A placename.; A number of places in the United States:; A township and village therein, in Arenac County, Michigan.
- Turner (Proper name) A placename.; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
- Turner syndrome (Noun) A particular genetic condition, caused by partially or completely missing an X chromosome (monosomy), that leads to sterility and other issues.
- XXX (Noun) Triple X syndrome.
- XXY (Adjective) Having an aneuploidy in the configuration of chromosomes by having an extra Y chromosome.
- XYY syndrome (Noun) An aneuploidy of the sex chromosomes in which a human male receives an extra Y chromosome, giving a total of 47 chromosomes instead of the usual 46; the condition is associated with learning difficulties and above-average height.
- altersex (Adjective) Having any of a variety of acquired conditions in which one's sex characteristics differ from those of a typical male and female; for example, having sex characteristics relating to both male and female sexes by choice. this word can be used to fictional condition.
- androgen insensitivity syndrome (Noun) A condition where an individual is unresponsive to male hormones. For persons with male gonads, this is associated with higher grades on the Quigley scale.
- androgyne (Noun) A person who is androgynous.
- androgynous (Adjective) Possessing the sex organs of both sexes.
- androgynous (Adjective) Pertaining to a feature or characteristic that is not definitively of either sex.
- androgynous (Adjective) Possessing qualities of both sexes.
- androgynous (Adjective) Able to connect to another connector or port of the same type, rather than being restricted to connecting to solely male or solely female connectors or ports.
- androgyny (Noun) Hermaphroditism.
- birth sex (Noun) The sex that someone was assigned at birth (or before via prenatal sex discernment), which may differ, as in cases of intersexuality, from their current sex assignment.
- disorder of sex development (Noun) A medical condition whereby the development of chromosomal or anatomical sex is in some way atypical; an intersex condition.
- endosexism (Noun) A system, practice, or bias privileging endosex people over intersex people.
- gender affirmation surgery (Noun) Synonym of gender-affirming surgery
- gender confirmation surgery (Noun) Synonym of gender-affirming surgery
- gender transition (Noun) Process or act of changing one's gender role or physical characteristics, by social, medical, or legal methods, to conform to their identified gender, rather than the sex assigned at birth.
- gender-affirming (Adjective) Inducing a change in the physical gender characteristics, whether surgically, pharmaceutically, or otherwise, typically of a transgender or intersex person.
- gender-affirming surgery (Noun) A surgical procedure that alters a person's physical sexual characteristics to conform with their gender identity.
- guevedoce (Noun) In the Dominican Republic, a person born with male gonads, but who appears to have female external genitalia, as a result of a 5-alpha-reductase deficiency.
- hermafrodite (Noun) Misspelling of hermaphrodite.
- hermaphrodite (Noun) Cosexual: an organism possessing both types of gonads; a flower possessing both stamens and pistils.
- hermaphrodite (Noun) Dichogamous: an organism which begins its life as one sex and changes its sex over its life cycle.
- hermaphrodite (Noun) A hermaphrodite brig.
- hermaphrodite (Noun) An armoured fighting vehicle having features of both male tanks and female tanks.
- hermaphroditic (Adjective) Of or pertaining to hermaphrodism; being a hermaphrodite.
- hermaphroditically (Adverb) In a hermaphroditic manner.
- hermaphroditism (Noun) Being able to reproduce as both male and female, either simultaneously (simultaneous hermaphroditism or cosexuality) or sequentially (sequantial hermaphroditism or dichogamy).
- interphobia (Noun) Fear, dislike, or hatred of intersexual people and/or intersexuality.
- interphobic (Adjective) Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting interphobia.
- intersex (Adjective) Of an individual, having any of a variety of inherent conditions (in a species with distinct sexes) in which one's sex characteristics differ from those of a typical male and female; for example, having sex characteristics relating to both male and female sexes.
- intersexed (Adjective) Intersex.
- intersexness (Noun) The state of having the physical features of both sexes, or of having ambiguous sex, i.e. not unambiguously male or female.
- intersexphobia (Noun) Fear, dislike, or hatred of intersexual people and/or intersexuality.
- intersexphobic (Adjective) Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting intersexphobia.
- intersexual (Noun) An intersex person.
- intersexuality (Noun) The state of having the physical features of both sexes, or of having ambiguous sex, i.e. not unambiguously male or female.
- intersexualize (Verb) Synonym of intersex (“to make intersexual, to make intersex”)
- intersexualized (Adjective) Made (or being) intersexual; intersexed.
- intersexually (Adverb) In an intersexual way.
- metafemale (Noun) A female with triple X syndrome.
- metamale (Noun) Synonym of supermale (“male with XYY syndrome”)
- ovotesticular (Adjective) Relating to ovotestes.
- ovotestis (Noun) A gonad with characteristics of both ovaries and testicles. Considered an intersex condition in humans and some other animals.
- pseudohermaphrodite (Noun) An individual that has the external genitalia of one sex, but the internal sex organs of the other.
- pseudohermaphrodite (Adjective) Having external genitalia of one sex, but the internal sex organs of the other.
- pseudohermaphroditic (Adjective) Relating to, or exhibiting, pseudohermaphroditism.
- pseudohermaphroditism (Noun) A condition in which an individual has the internal reproductive organs of one sex but the external genitalia of the other.
- sex reassignment surgery (Noun) Surgical procedure that alters a person's sexual characteristics to conform to one's identified gender, particularly for transgender people, or to conform to societal standards for intersex people to present in a dyadic fashion, the latter often done without consent.
- superfemale (Noun) A female with an additional X chromosome in each cell (triple X syndrome).
- supermale (Noun) A male with XYY syndrome.
- triple X syndrome (Noun) A form of chromosomal variation characterized by the presence of an extra X chromosome in each cell of a human female, sometimes leading to tall stature, learning disabilities, and/or epicanthic folds.
- tumtum (Noun) One whose gender can not be determined by a physical examination; a person lacking external genitalia; an androgynous person; sometimes a hermaphrodite.
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