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hermaphrodite
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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hermaphrodite XV. — L.
hermaphrodītus — Gr.
hermaphródītos, orig. proper name of a son of
Hermes and
Aphrodite, who grew together with the nymph Salmacis while bathing in her fountain and so combined male and female characters.
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Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...generating, ways in which the hermaphrodite was scrutinized and portrayed...novel Description de l'Isle des Hermaphrodites by Thomas Artus. This impressive...demonstrates how the figure of the hermaphrodite personified the key issues at...
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Interview: Elizabeth Goodwin of the University of Wisconsin discusses hermaphrodite worms
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; 11/9/2003; ; 691 words
; ...be transformed from a hermaphrodite into a male. HANSEN...farther distances than an hermaphrodite. Essentially the hermaphrodite, although it doesn...environments or perhaps other hermaphrodites. HANSEN: So if food...
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The Hermaphrodite.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; The Hermaphrodite. By Julia Ward Howe. Edited and...95. With the publication of The Hermaphrodite one hundred and fifty years after...text that has come to be called The Hermaphrodite. She may never have finished it...
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Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of Sex Research; 11/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex...266 pages. Cloth, $35.00. In Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex...doubly-sexed people known as hermaphrodites were discovered to exist in numbers...
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A `man' for a mom? It can happen Hermaphrodites able to give birth, doctors say
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/29/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...Carlo was born a hermaphrodite, a person with male...live births is a hermaphrodite, say doctors who...his career studying hermaphrodites. In Carlo's presumed...physician studying Asian hermaphrodites. Carlo has since...any WHO program of hermaphrodite research. He also...
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Florida Hunter Bags a Hermaphrodite Deer
News Wire article from: AP Online; 2/1/2007; 277 words
; ...discovered that one deer was a hermaphrodite, possessing both male and...also he logged in another hermaphrodite deer the day before...deer that were 'true' hermaphrodites, those having all of the...said deer that are true hermaphrodites are extremely rare.
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Aths: Semenya's family angered by hermaphrodite reports
Newspaper article from: AAP Sports News (Australia); 9/11/2009; 409 words
; ...Aths: Semenya's family angered by hermaphrodite reports JOHANNESBURG, Sept 11 AFP...Australian reports stating the athlete was a hermaphrodite. "Why must jealousy drive people...tests on Semenya have found she is a hermaphrodite. Athletics SA president Leornado Chuene...
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Semenya a hermaphrodite, Australian report says.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 9/11/2009; 693 words
; ...Caster Semenya have found she is a hermaphrodite, an Australian newspaper reported...certainly is evidence Semenya is a hermaphrodite," the source was quoted as saying...very personal: of the organs being a hermaphrodite, of not being a 'real' woman. It...
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SAM: I'M A HERMAPHRODITE; HOUSEMATE'S SECRET.. New Big Brother Scot tells pals he has rare sexual organ condition.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 5/31/2006; 700+ words
; ...teenager Sam told an elderly pal he was a hermaphrodite, it was revealed yesterday. The...his son was confused about the term hermaphrodite. Robin said: "I've heard him using the term hermaphrodite about himself - but it's not correct...
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Suicide bombing by hermaphrodite foiled
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 5/11/2004; ; 436 words
; ...2004 Headline: Suicide bombing by hermaphrodite foiled Byline: MARGOT DUDKEVITCH Edition...Palestinian sources, Juma'a is a hermaphrodite who also goes by the name of Ahmed...the Palestinian reports that she is a hermaphrodite. During the same raid, security forces...
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hermaphrodite
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
hermaphrodite The idea of the hermaphrodite who has fully functioning male...to the behavioural, but a hermaphrodite is usually taken to be an individual...notion of sexual difference. If hermaphrodites did not exist, it would probably...
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hermaphrodite brig
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
hermaphrodite brig, the generic term for those sailing ships which incorporated facets of the fore-and-aft rig into the square rig , principally...
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Hermaphrodite
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Hermaphrodite in Greek mythology, a son of Hermes and Aphrodite, with whom the nymph Salmacis fell in love and prayed to be forever united. As a result Hermaphroditus and Salmacis became joined in a single body which retained characteristics of both sexes.
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sequential hermaphrodite
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
sequential hermaphrodite An organism that, during the course of its life, is capable of having both a male phase and a female phase of existence. See also PROTANDRY ; PROTOGYNY .
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Intersex States
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence
...states can be classified as a true hermaphrodite, a female pseudohermaphrodite, or...external structures of the child. True hermaphrodites are born with both ovaries and testicles...whose sex organs look unusual. True hermaphrodites are extremely rare. Any abnormality...
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