In these cases the hermaphrodism is clearly secondary in the sense that the hermaphrodites descend originally from gonochorists.
Now, this hermaphrodism of the Supreme Divinity was again supposed to be represented by the sun, which was the male generative energy, and by nature, or the universe, which was the female prolific principle.
Connection of Sacred and Profane History [80] Is there not a seeming reference to this thought of divine hermaphrodism in the well-known passage of Genesis?
The alternate hermaphrodism of oysters produces effects which have been observed throughout antiquity.
The most strongly marked and most complicated forms of hermaphrodism are found in mollusks, and chiefly in gasteropodes.
Thus it is difficult to class animals according to their manner of reproduction; hermaphrodism is another block.
We must carefully distinguish the rarer cases of real hermaphrodismfrom the preceding.
As hermaphrodism was probably the original arrangement in all the Vertebrates, and the division of the sexes only followed by later differentiation of this, these curious cases offer no theoretical difficulty.
Hermaphrodism in man is always pathological, extremely rare, and when it exists nearly always incomplete.
In man and other vertebrates, hermaphrodism is always abnormal.
Although hermaphrodism on a large scale, as an existing condition, was a matter of serious belief at the end of the eighteenth century, it has occupied no little attention in this.
In connection with hermaphrodism it has been shown that the males who have been supposed to be so malformed were really, in most instances, but cases of hypospadias.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hermaphrodism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
