Word: intersex
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...Canadian believes that he has solved the diagnostic problem in human intersex. All human cells, says Dr. Murray L. Barr of the University of Western Ontario, contain something called sex chromatin. It is easy to spot in females' cells, because there it is made from two husky X chromosomes. It is not seen in male cells, because they draw on only one X chromosome and a measly little Y chromosome...