Abstract

F eta1 sex differentiation can be defined as the acquisition of male or female characteristics in primordia initially identical in fetuses of both sexes. These include the gonads, genital tract, and external genitalia, the appearance of which determine the legal sex assigned to the newborn. Intersex disorders are characterized by discrepancy or ambiguity of sex orientation at one or several of these levels. folds or labioscrotal swellings. After the corpora cavernosa and glans have differentiated, the genital tubercle elongates to form the phallus, whose ventral surface is depressed by a deep furrow, the urethral groove. No sex difference is detectable in human fetuses before 9 to 10 weeks.’

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