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  2. Genital wart - Wikipedia

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    A condyloma acuminatum is a single genital wart, and condylomata acuminata are multiple genital warts. The word roots mean 'pointed wart' (from Greek κόνδυλος 'knuckle', Greek -ωμα -oma 'disease', and Latin acuminatum 'pointed'). Although similarly named, it is not the same as condyloma latum, which is a complication of secondary ...

  3. XY sex-determination system - Wikipedia

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    The idea is instead of having a simplistic mechanism by which you have pro-male genes going all the way to make a male, in fact there is a solid balance between pro-male genes and anti-male genes and if there is a little too much of anti-male genes, there may be a female born and if there is a little too much of pro-male genes then there will ...

  4. Condyloma - Wikipedia

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    Condyloma (plural: "Condylomata", from Greek “kondylōma” "knuckle") refers two types of infection of the genitals: Condyloma acuminata , or genital warts , caused by human papilloma virus subtypes 6, 11, and others

  5. Sex differences in human physiology - Wikipedia

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    Pregnancy in the 40s or later has been correlated with increased risk of Down syndrome in children. [72] Males are capable of fathering children into old age. Paternal age effects in children include multiple sclerosis, [73] autism, [74] breast cancer [75] and schizophrenia, [76] as well as reduced intelligence. [77]

  6. Male reproductive system - Wikipedia

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    Chart of the generalized male reproductive system embryionic The genetic sex is determined by whether a Y bearing or next bearing sperm fertilizes the open; the presence or absence of a Y chromosome in turn determines whether the gonads of the embryo will be testes or ovaries; and the presence or absence of testes, finally, determines whether ...

  7. XY gonadal dysgenesis - Wikipedia

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    XY complete gonadal dysgenesis, also known as Swyer syndrome, is a type of defect hypogonadism in a person whose karyotype is 46,XY. Though they typically have normal vulvas, [1] the person has underdeveloped gonads, fibrous tissue termed "streak gonads", and if left untreated, will not experience puberty.

  8. Sexual differentiation in humans - Wikipedia

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    Males become externally distinct between 8 and 12 weeks, as androgens enlarge the genital tubercle and cause the urogenital groove and sinus to fuse in the midline, producing an unambiguous penis with a phallic urethra, and the labioscrotal swellings become a thinned, rugate scrotum where the testicles are situated. Dihydrotestosterone will ...

  9. Sex differences in medicine - Wikipedia

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    Sex differences in medicine include sex-specific diseases or conditions which occur only in people of one sex due to underlying biological factors (for example, prostate cancer in males or uterine cancer in females); sex-related diseases, which are diseases that are more common to one sex (for example, breast cancer and systemic lupus erythematosus which occur predominantly in females); [1 ...