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XXXVII.—Mendelian Action on Differentiated Sex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

D. Berry Hart
D. Berry Hart
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Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh Laboratory of the Royal College of Physicians
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It has long been known that the male and the female human genital tract contain not only organs characteristic of their sex proper, but also certain parts of the opposite sex in a less developed but yet perfectly definite form. Thus the female genital tract is made up of, not only its characteristic organs, the ovaries, tubes, uterus, etc., but also the epoophoron (parovarium) and its duct, the equivalent of the epididymis and ductus epididymis of the testis. In the same way, the human male has his characteristic sexual organs and also the appendix testis and prostatic utricle, the representatives of the fimbriated end of the Fallopian tube and of the lower end of the vaginal tract (hymen mainly, but varying).

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 29 , 1909 , pp. 607 - 618
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1909

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