Word: gonads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scientists pinpointed the added significance of nuclear fallout. They found least long-range danger from that which swirls through the troposphere (the part of the atmosphere that goes seven to eleven miles up) for several months before falling. At most, its short-lived isotopes raise annual external marrow and gonad dosage by .0005 rem. But the higher stratosphere (beyond eleven miles) is a reservoir of long-lived isotopes that fall for many years. Chief dangers...
Hermaphroditism. After about five weeks of life in the womb, the human fetus develops a sex gland (gonad) which at first cannot be identified as male or female. Within a week or two, in normal growth, it becomes recognizable as either the female kind that will develop into ovaries, or the male kind that will become testicles. Sometimes, nature gets its wires crossed and the luckless infant develops one ovary and one testicle, or an intermediate type of "ovotestis." and some of the genital organs of both sexes. This is true hermaphroditism,* though Pediatrician Lawson Wilkins of Johns Hopkins...
Pseudohermaphroditism. This clumsy term covers a wide variety of cases. Pediatrician Wilkins argues that one type, at least, should be classed as intersexuality. This covers cases in which the embryonic gonad definitely takes the form of one sex, but other sex organs resemble those of the opposite sex because of a mix-up in the genes and chromosomes. Surgery to correct the "accessory organs" is the only answer...