See Also: Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome(health)
Androgen insensitivity syndrome, complete(health)
Androgen-insensitivity(health)
Congenital insensitivity to pain(medicine)
pain insensitivity, congenital(medicine)
caprine(dictionary)
caprine(medicine)
caprine herpesvirus(medicine)
caprine herpetovirus(medicine)
contagious caprine pleuropneumonia(medicine)

Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (health) and caprine (iou)


Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (health)


A genetic disorder that makes XY fetuses insensitive (unresponsive) to androgens (male hormones). Instead, they are born looking externally like normal girls. Internally, there is a short blind-pouch vagina and no uterus, fallopian tubes or ovaries. There are testes in the abdomen or the inguinal canal. The complete androgen insensitivity syndrome is usually detected at puberty when a girl should but does not begin to menstruate. Many of the girls with the syndrome have no pubic or axillary (armpit) hair. They have luxuriant scalp hair without temporal (male-pattern) balding. They are sterile and cannot bear children. They are at high risk for osteoporosis and so should take estrogen replacement therapy.





caprine (iou)



caprine adjective. LME.
[Latin caprinus, from caper, capr- goat: see -INE1. Cf. Old & mod. French caprin.]
Of or pertaining to a goat or goats; goatlike.