alternate hermaphroditism

See also

 pseudohermaphroditisms

 intersex or sexual ambiguity

• A state of intersex or sexual ambiguity, involving the genotype , the gonads, the reproductive tract, and/or the external genitalia or phenotype. This concept covers true hermaphrodism and pseudohermaphrodisms.

 true hermaphroditism

• True hermaphrodites are rare and they possess gonadal tissues of both sexes, tissues from the ovary and the testis. Pseudohermaphrodites possess gonadal tissue of one sex but exhibit external phenotype of the opposite sex. (MeSH)