Encyclopedia - Micropenis: Encyclopedia Ii - Micropenis - Causes
Micropenis can have a variety of causes. Since it is defined statistically, a large proportion of males with micropenis are simply normal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Micropenis: Encyclopedia Ii - Micropenis - Treatment
A number of surgical techniques for penis enlargement have been devised and performed but are not generally considered successful enough ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Penis Size: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Penis Size - Micropenis
Main article: Micropenis A penis whose stretched flaccid length is more than approximately 2.5 standard deviations below average size for...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Andrology: Encyclopedia - Andrology
Andrology (from the Greek andros, man) is the medical specialty that deals with male health, particularly relating to the problems of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cryptorchidism: Encyclopedia - Cryptorchidism
Cryptorchidism is a medical term referring to absence from the scrotum of one or both testes. This usually represents failure of the test...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Penis: Encyclopedia - Penis
The penis (plural penises or penes) or phallus is an external male sexual organ. The penis is the male reproductive organ and for mammals...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Penis Size: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Penis Size - Micropenis
Main article: Micropenis A penis whose stretched flaccid length is more than approximately 2.5 standard deviations below average size for...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Penis Size: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Penis Size - Perceptions
In a 2005 study by the University of California Los Angeles, 45% of men responded they would prefer their penis size increased.[1] 84% of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Penis Size: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Penis Size - Measuring A Penis
There are a variety of different ways to measure a penis; and there are a number of difficulties in doing so. First of all, a penis must ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Penis Size: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Penis Size - Female Preference
One source of continued debate is the extent to which women actually prefer certain penis sizes. In the 2005 UCLA study, 85% of women sai...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Penis Size: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Penis Size - Race And Penis Size
While it is commonly accepted that physical differences between races do exist (such as eye color, hair texture, noses, height, and hip w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Penis Size: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Penis Size - Race And Penis Size
While it is commonly accepted that physical differences between races do exist (such as eye color, hair texture, noses, height, and hip w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Penis Size: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Penis Size - Data
Regarding the length of the adult fully erect penis (measured along the top of the penis from the groin to the tip), several studies have...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Penis Size: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Penis Size - Data
Regarding the length of the adult fully erect penis (measured along the top of the penis from the groin to the tip), several studies have...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Penis Size: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Penis Size - Perceptions
In a 2005 study by the University of California Los Angeles, 45% of men responded they would prefer their penis size increased.[1] 84% of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Penis Size: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Penis Size - Myths
In some cultures, mass hysteria involving the believed removal or shrinking of the penis has been observed. See penis panic for a detaile...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Penis Size: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Penis Size - Myths
In some cultures, mass hysteria involving the believed removal or shrinking of the penis has been observed. See penis panic for a detaile...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kallmann Syndrome: Encyclopedia Ii - Kallmann Syndrome - Features
Kallmann syndrome is characterized by: Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (a lack of the pituitary hormones LH and FSH) Congenital (present f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Penis Size: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Penis Size - Female Preference
One source of continued debate is the extent to which women actually prefer certain penis sizes. In the 2005 UCLA study, 85% of women sai...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - David Reimer: Encyclopedia Ii - David Reimer - Social Impact Of David Reimer's Story
The report and subsequent book about Reimer influenced several medical practices and reputations, and even current understanding of the d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Intersex Surgery: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Intersex Surgery - Complications Arise Both In The Theories And In The Patients
Throughout the 1980s pediatric surgery textbooks recommended female assignment and feminizing reconstructive surgery for XY infants with ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Intersex Surgery: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Intersex Surgery - Controversy
The goals of surgery, outlined at the beginning of this article have not changed, but some types of surgery have been discontinued. The p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Prenatal Hormones And Sexual Orientation: Encyclopedia Ii - Prenatal Hormones And Sexual Orientation - Links Between Adult Sexual Orientation And Gender Behaviour As Children
Physiological factors present at birth may produce behaviours in children that are interpreted as gender difference. Such gendered behavi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kallmann Syndrome: Encyclopedia Ii - Kallmann Syndrome - Epidemiology
Kallmann syndrome occurs at a rate of 1 in 10,000 male births and 1 in 50,000 female births. It may be inherited as an X-linked condition...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kallmann Syndrome: Encyclopedia Ii - Kallmann Syndrome - Treatment
Treatment is directed at restoring the deficient hormones -- known as hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Males are administered human cho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cryptorchidism: Encyclopedia Ii - Cryptorchidism - Causes Of Cryptorchidism
In most full-term infant boys with cryptorchidism but no other genital abnormalities, a cause cannot be found, making this a common, spor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cryptorchidism: Encyclopedia Ii - Cryptorchidism - Diagnostic Evaluation
The most common diagnostic dilemma in otherwise normal boys is distinguishing a retractile testis from a testis that will not/cannot desc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Prenatal Hormones And Sexual Orientation: Encyclopedia Ii - Prenatal Hormones And Sexual Orientation - Links Between Adult Sexual Orientation And Gender Behaviour As Children
Physiological factors present at birth may produce behaviours in children that are interpreted as gender difference. Such gendered behavi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hypopituitarism: Encyclopedia Ii - Hypopituitarism - Physiology
The primary hormones of the anterior pituitary are proteins and include growth hormone (GH) - growth and glucose homeostasis luteinizing...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Intersex Surgery: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Intersex Surgery - Outcomes And Statistics
Regardless of the "representativeness" of the advocacy groups, the doctors began to listen. Within a short time re-evaluation of intersex...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sex Assignment: Encyclopedia Ii - Sex Assignment - Assignment In Intersex Conditions
Intersex is a broadly defined term that usually denotes the presence of discordance of the biological aspects of sex: at least some aspec...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Growth Hormone Deficiency: Encyclopedia Ii - Growth Hormone Deficiency - Causes Of Gh Deficiency
There are many causes of GH deficiency. Some examples include: mutations of specific genes (e.g., GHRHR, GH1) congenital malformations i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cryptorchidism: Encyclopedia Ii - Cryptorchidism - Inheritance And Recurrence Risk Of Cryptorchidism
A small percentage of cases of isolated cryptorchidism are familial. It has been reported that about 4% of fathers and 6-10% of brothers ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Growth Hormone Deficiency: Encyclopedia Ii - Growth Hormone Deficiency - History
Perhaps the most famous person who exemplified the appearance of untreated congenital growth hormone deficiency was Charles Sherwood Stra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Growth Hormone Deficiency: Encyclopedia Ii - Growth Hormone Deficiency - Terminology
The term hypopituitarism is often used interchangeably with GH deficiency by endocrinologists but more often denotes GH deficiency plus d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Growth Hormone Deficiency: Encyclopedia Ii - Growth Hormone Deficiency - Adult Gh Deficiency
Though growth ends with sexual maturity, GH continues to be secreted throughout life. In adults, GH contributes to maintenance of muscle ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Intersex Surgery: Encyclopedia Ii - Intersex Surgery - Masculinizing Surgical Procedures
Orchiopexy and hypospadias repair are the most common types of genital corrective surgery performed in infant boys, but most of these boy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kallmann Syndrome: Encyclopedia Ii - Kallmann Syndrome - Pathophysiology
Under normal conditions, GnRH travels to the pituitary gland via the tuberoinfundibular pathway, where it triggers production of gonadotr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Intersex Surgery: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Intersex Surgery - Triumph Of Infant Surgery And Nurture Over Nature
By the 1960s, the young specialties of pediatric surgery and pediatric urology at children's hospitals were universally admired for bring...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Penis: Encyclopedia Ii - Penis - Linguistics
Penis - Etymology. The word is derived from the Latin word for tail, also used to describe the organ, "penis". The Latin word "phallus"...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Penis: Encyclopedia Ii - Penis - Cultural Aspects Involving Penises
Penis - Uses of animal penises. Culinary, e.g., in Chinese gastronomy Magical and therapeutic, in medicine and/or superstition, especi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cryptorchidism: Encyclopedia Ii - Cryptorchidism - Later Fertility
Many men who were born with undescended testes have reduced fertility, even after orchiopexy in infancy. The reduction with unilateral cr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cryptorchidism: Encyclopedia Ii - Cryptorchidism - Normal Fetal Testicular Development And Descent
The testes begin as an immigration of primordial germ cells into testicular cords along the genital ridge in the abdomen of the early emb...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Prenatal Hormones And Sexual Orientation: Encyclopedia Ii - Prenatal Hormones And Sexual Orientation - Political Controversy
The perceived causes of sexual orientation have a significant bearing on the status of sexual minorities such as lesbians and gays. The F...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Intersex Surgery: Encyclopedia Ii - Intersex Surgery - Feminizing Surgical Procedures
In the last 50 years, the following procedures were most commonly performed for the following intersex conditions and birth defects in or...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Prenatal Hormones And Sexual Orientation: Encyclopedia Ii - Prenatal Hormones And Sexual Orientation - Prenatal Hormones And Sexuality-linked Characteristics
There is evidence of a correlation between sexual orientation and traits that are determined in utero. Williams et al. (2000) found that ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Penis: Encyclopedia Ii - Penis - Non-human Penises
Most marsupials, except for the two largest species of kangaroos, have a bifurcated penis. That is, it separates into two columns, and so...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Intersex Surgery: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Intersex Surgery - Surgical Pioneering And The Discovery That Gender Is Constructed
Genital reconstructive surgery was pioneered between 1930 and 1960 by urologist Hugh Hampton Young and other surgeons at Johns Hopkins Ho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cryptorchidism: Encyclopedia Ii - Cryptorchidism - Management Of Cryptorchidism
The primary management of cryptorchidism is surgery, called orchiopexy. It is usually performed in infancy, if inguinal testes have not d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Penis Enlargement: Encyclopedia Ii - Penis Enlargement - Surgical Methods
An innovation in cosmetic surgery takes fat cells from elsewhere in the body and injects them below the surface of the skin of the shaft ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Growth Hormone Deficiency: Encyclopedia Ii - Growth Hormone Deficiency - Diagnosis Of Growth Hormone Deficiency
Pediatric endocrinologists are the physicians who specialize in diagnosis and treatment of growth hormone deficiency and growth problems ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Growth Hormone Deficiency: Encyclopedia Ii - Growth Hormone Deficiency - Treatment Of Gh Deficiency
GH deficiency is treated by replacing GH. Until 1985, growth hormone for treatment was obtained by extraction from human pituitary glands...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hypoglycemia: Encyclopedia Ii - Hypoglycemia - Hypoglycemia As American Folk Medicine
Hypoglycemia is also a term of contemporary American folk medicine which refers to a recurrent state of symptoms of altered mood and cogn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hypoglycemia: Encyclopedia Ii - Hypoglycemia - Pathophysiology: Why Low Blood Sugar Primarily Affects The Brain
Like most animal tissues, brain metabolism depends primarily on glucose for fuel in most circumstances. A limited amount of glucose can b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Intersex Surgery: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Intersex Surgery - Nature Back On Top: Surgeons Go From Hero To Villain In 3 Years
By 1990, biological factors were being reported for a wide variety of human behaviors and personality characteristics. The idea that cult...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - David Reimer: Encyclopedia Ii - David Reimer - Overview
David Reimer was born as a male identical twin, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His birth name was Bruce; his twin brother was named Brian. At the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hypoglycemia: Encyclopedia Ii - Hypoglycemia - Determining The Cause
Hundreds of conditions can cause hypoglycemia. Common causes by age are listed below. While many aspects of the medical history and physi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hypoglycemia: Encyclopedia Ii - Hypoglycemia - Treatment And Prevention
Management of hypoglycemia involves immediately raising the blood sugar to normal, determining the cause, and taking measures to prevent ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Penis: Encyclopedia Ii - Penis - The Human Penis
The human penis differs from those of some other mammals. It has no baculum, or erectile bone; instead it relies entirely on engorgement ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hypoglycemia: Encyclopedia Ii - Hypoglycemia - Signs And Symptoms Of Hypoglycemia
Hypoglycemic symptoms and manifestations can be divided into those produced by the counterregulatory hormones (adrenaline and glucagon) t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Penis Enlargement: Encyclopedia Ii - Penis Enlargement - Self-treatment Methods
Penis enlargement - Cosmetic. Rather than attempt to change the actual size of the penis, one may make it appear bigger, by trimming th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hypoglycemia: Encyclopedia Ii - Hypoglycemia - Causes Of Hypoglycemia
There are several ways to classify hypoglycemia. The following is a list of the more common causes and factors which may contribute to hy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Intersex Surgery: Encyclopedia Ii - Intersex Surgery - Controversies And Unsettled Questions
Management practices for several types of intersex conditions and other abnormalities and injuries of the genitalia have evolved over the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Diseases Starting With M: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Diseases Starting With M - Mi
List of diseases starting with M - Mic. Michelin tire baby syndrome Michels Caskey syndrome Michels syndrome Mickleson syndrome M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hypoglycemia: Encyclopedia Ii - Hypoglycemia - Defining Hypoglycemia: What's Normal And What's Low?
Although 70 mg/dl (3.9 mmol/l) is commonly cited as the lower limit of normal glucose, different values may be defined as low for differe...   » Read the article

Article - Popular Pages Sitemap Vii - H
This is a sitemap for Popular Pages VII - H . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word. ...   » Read the article