güevedoce

See also: guevedoce

Spanish

Etymology

From huevos a los doce (balls at twelve).

Pronunciation

Noun

güevedoce m (plural güevedoces)

  1. (medicine, endocrinology) in the Dominican Republic, an individual born with male gonads, but who appears to have female external genitalia, as a result of a 5-alpha-reductase deficiency; such individuals are often raised as girls until puberty, at which point they develop typical male genitalia