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Definition of Secondary sex character
1. Noun. The genetically determined sex characteristics that are not functionally necessary for reproduction (pitch of the voice and body hair and musculature).
Generic synonyms: Sex Character, Sex Characteristic, Sexual Characteristic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Secondary Sex Character
Literary usage of Secondary sex character
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1920)
"A careful study of a secondary sex-character, the first leg, has shown clearly
that this interpretation is correct and that there is an almost endless ..."
2. Year books by Plainfield High School (Plainfield, N.J.) (1919)
"A careful study of a secondary sex-character, the first leg, has shown clearly
that this interpretation is correct and ..."
3. Naval Officers: Their Heredity and Development by Charles Benedict Davenport (1919)
"It is possible, accordingly, that the irresistible appeal of the sea is a trait
that is a sort of secondary sex character in males of certain races, ..."
4. Clinical Medicine by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1922)
"In many cases of hypophyseal obesity there is genital dystrophy and a failure of
the secondary sex character to develop; or there may be a faulty ..."
5. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods by Harry Levi Hollingworth (1916)
"No mental trait has ever been proved to be sex-limited in inheritance, or to
exist as a secondary sex character. So far as we know, daughters inherit mental ..."
6. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods by Harry Levi Hollingworth (1916)
"No mental trait has ever been proved to be sex-limited in inheritance, or to
exist as a secondary sex character. So far as we know, daughters inherit mental ..."
7. Neurological Bulletin by Frederick Tilney, Columbia University, Dept. of Neurology (1919)
"In case of hyperfunction the result is increased hairiness of the body and
accentuated secondary sex character, while hypofunction leads to a diminution of ..."
8. The Biology of Death: Being a Series of Lectures Delivered at the Lowell by Raymond Pearl (1922)
"The female pelvis, in respect of its conformation, is a secondary sex character.
The immediate reason for including syphilis and gonococcus infection here ..."
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