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A T lymphocyte that contains an abundance of vacuoles filled with a mucopolysaccharide; present in the blood of patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma who develop Sezary syndrome.  

Any drug (e.g., alcohol used in modest amounts) or pheromone that acts as an aphrodisiac for humans or animals.  

The legal, surgical, or social action or decision to assign the appropriate sexuality to an individual who has been considered previously to be of the opposite (or ambiguous) sex.  

A list of previously convicted sex offenders living or incarcerated in a community.  

The order and extent of the development of a patient’s primary and secondary sexual characteristics as compared with the established norms for chronological age. In both sexes, the changes leading to puberty are the result of major hormonal changes that, although somewhat variable in age of occurrence, proceed in a predictable sequence. Assessing the degree…

The World Health Organization has defined three elements of sexual health: a capacity to enjoy and control sexual behavior in accordance with a social and personal ethic; freedom from fear, shame, guilt, false beliefs, and other psychological factors inhibiting sexual response and impairing sexual relationships; and freedom from organic disorders, disease, and deficiencies that interfere…

A group of health care professionals who have had special preparation in the examination of rape victims. The training includes techniques for collecting, labeling, and storing evidence so it may be used in court proceedings concerning the person accused of rape and in psychological approaches to reduce the emotional trauma.  

Capable of combining with six atoms of hydrogen.  

In bacteriology, the transfer of DNA, in combination with a fertility plasmid, from a donor bacterium to a recipient bacterium.