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The Misnamed Female Sex Organ

1980
In every medical book on human anatomy, the female external genitals are called the vulva. Yet, the term vagina is almost universally used when the speaker refers to the pubic region of the girl or woman. Laypersons are not alone in making this error. Sex educators fail to teach the correct term.
M. Ash
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Differences in medication adherence by sex and organ type among adolescent and young adult solid organ transplant recipients

Pediatric Transplantation, 2022
Identification of differences in medication adherence by sex or organ type may help in planning interventions to optimize outcomes. We compared immunosuppressive medication adherence between males and females, and between kidney, liver and heart ...
Yulia Vaisbourd   +20 more
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The evolution of sex chromosomes in organisms with separate haploid sexes

Evolution, 2015
The evolution of dimorphic sex chromosomes is driven largely by the evolution of reduced recombination and the subsequent accumulation of deleterious mutations. Although these processes are increasingly well understood in diploid organisms, the evolution of dimorphic sex chromosomes in haploid organisms (U/V) has been virtually unstudied theoretically.
Simone Immler, Sarah Perin Otto
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Sex Differentiation: Organizing Effects of Sex Hormones

2013
Men and women differ, not only in their anatomy but also in their behavior. Research using animal models has convincingly shown that sex differences in the brain and behavior are induced by sex hormones during a specific, hormone-sensitive period during early development.
Julie Bakker, Julie Bakker, Julie Bakker
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Sex equality in intrahemispheric language organization

Brain and Language, 1989
Sex differences in inter- and intrahemispheric cerebral organization, found in previous studies, have been used to explain sex differences in cognitive abilities. This study highlights data to contradict such widely held beliefs. Intrahemispheric language organization was examined by determining the location of lesions causing aphasia by computed ...
Andrew Kertesz, Thomas Benke
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Global Efforts against Human Trafficking: The Misguided Conflation of Sex, Labor, and Organ Trafficking

, 2015
Human trafficking has been the subject of growing attention from both scholars and policymakers. The internationally accepted definition of human trafficking used by governments and international organizations identifies three purposes of trading in ...
A. Efrat
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Prenatal exposure to a low-frequency electromagnetic field demasculinizes adult scent marking behavior and increases accessory sex organ weights in rats.

Teratology, 1990
Pregnant Sprague-Dawley dams were exposed to a low-level, low-frequency pulsed electromagnetic (EM) field (15 Hz, 0.3 msec duration, peak intensity 8 gauss) for 15 min twice a day from day 15 through day 20 of gestation, a period in development that is ...
Robert F. McGivern   +2 more
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Surgical Management of Pelvic Organ Prolapse

Postgraduate Medical Journal of Ghana, 2022
Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is a common condition that affects the quality of life of affected women. A prevalence of 12% has been reported in Ghana with the condition affecting mainly the emotional wellbeing, sexual life and women’s relationship with ...
A. Hundley, S. Nekkanti
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Organ Donation by Suicides: Sex and Ethnicity

Psychological Reports, 2014
An analysis of 2,034 actual organ donations by suicides for the years 2008–2010 indicated that women were more likely to be donors than were men and Blacks more likely to donate than were Whites. The sex difference was consistent with the responses of men and women to surveys of the general public about their willingness to become organ donors, but ...
David Lester, Dominique Hathaway
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The cognitive organization of sex and occupation stereotypes

British Journal of Social Psychology, 1995
Two experiments were conducted to explore whether activating occupation stereotypes primes sex stereotypes or whether the reverse is more likely. A reaction time paradigm was used to distinguish between four alternative hypotheses about this issue. More specifically, subjects were exposed to sex‐occupation or occupation‐sex word pairs and asked to ...
Phanikiran Radhakrishnan, David Trafimow
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