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Word: domi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theelin reveals that the corresponding male hormones are chemically almost identical. Normal men generate traces of female hormones, and vice versa. Thus, being male or female is not a matter of one element completely excluding the other, but rather of one ele ment dominating the other. If the domi nance is too weak to prevent confusion, the individual is a hermaphrodite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Change of Sex | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

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