Testicular Feminization
Alternate Names
: Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, Male Pseudohermaphroditism ...
Testicular feminization occurs in a person who is genetically male and has the external appearance of a female.
What is going on in the body?
Alternate Names : Testicular feminization
Definition
Androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) is when a person who is genetically male (has one X and one Y chromosome) is resistant to male hormones called androgens.
Testicular feminization
-An individual with female external development, including secondary sex characteristics, but with the presence of testes and absence of uterus and tubes.
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Testicular feminization
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) is caused by various genetic defects on the X chromosome which make the body unable to respond to the hormones responsible for the male appearance.
Testicular feminization
References
Wysolmerski JJ. Insogna KL. The Parathyroid Glands, Hypercalcemia, and Hypocalcemia. In: Kronenberg HM, Schlomo M, Polansky KS, Larsen PR, eds. Williams Textbook of Endocrinology. 11th ed. St.
Incomplete Testicular Feminization
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Androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS), formerly known as testicular feminization, is an X-linked recessive condition resulting in a failure of normal masculinization of the external genitalia in chromosomally male individuals.
Androgen insensitivity syndrome (testicular feminization)
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Scriver's Online Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease (OMMBID): The Androgen Resistance Syndromes: Steroid 5 α-Reductase 2 Deficiency, Testicular Feminization, and Related Disorders
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the hormones are all normal, but the receptors to male hormones don't function properly. There are over 150 different defects that have been identified so far, and each causes a different type of AIS. AIS has also been called testicular feminization.
 See also: Feminization, Cancer, Symptom, Androgen insensitivity syndrome, Deficiency
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