Psychobiology of Women Test 1
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- CAH
- Congenital Adrenal hyperplasia
- What CAH does
- produces excess androgen due to a malfunction of the adrenal gland
- Effects of CAH
- ambiguous internal genitalia and male like external genitalia in XX individual with ovaries
- AIS
- androgen insensitivity syndrome
- what AIS is
- lacks receptors that respond to androgens
- effect of AIS
- normal testes, external genitalia female, raised female
- gential tubercle becomes what in women
- clitoris
- labio scrotal swelling becomes what in women
- labia majora
- uro-genital fold becomes what in women
- labia minora
- female external genitalia
- in androgens not produced, or cannot react to them
- genital tubercle becomes what in male
- penis
- labio-scrotal swelling becomes what in male
- scrotal sac
- uro genital fold becomes what in male
- urethra
- male external genitalia
- androgens produced from testes result in male structures
- undifferentiated external genitalia
- uro genital fold labio scrotal swelling genital tubercle