Sex-Based Differences in Physiology: What Should We Teach in The Medical Curriculum?
Sex-Based Differences in Physiology: What Should We Teach in The Medical Curriculum?
Sex-Based Differences in Physiology: What Should We Teach in The Medical Curriculum?
doi:10.1152/advan.00118.2006.
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The Institute of Medicine Committee on Understanding the Biology of Sex
and Gender Differences has defined sex as the classification . . . as male or
female according to reproductive organs and functions assigned by the chromosomal complement and gender as a persons self-representation as male
or female, or how that person is responded to by social institutions on the basis
of the individuals gender presentation (8).
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