Sexual infantilism (medical condition): A rare syndrome where damage to the hypothalamus impairs the activity of the pituitary gland resulting in obesity, sluggishness and delayed puberty.
See also:
Frölich's syndrome:
»Introduction: Frölich's syndrome
»Symptoms of Frölich's syndrome
Sexual infantilism: failure to develop secondary sexual characteristics after the normal time of puberty.
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
Sexual infantilism: The permanent lack of SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT in an individual. This defect is usually observed at an age after expected PUBERTY.
Source: MeSH 2007
These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Sexual infantilism:
Sexual infantilism: Another name for Frölich's syndrome (or close medical condition association).
»Introduction: Frölich's syndrome
»Symptoms of Frölich's syndrome
Some of the causes of Sexual infantilism are included in the list below:
Read more about causes of Sexual infantilism (Frölich's syndrome)
Some of the symptoms of Sexual infantilism incude:
See full list of 21 symptoms of Sexual infantilism (Frölich's syndrome)
The following list attempts to classify Sexual infantilism into categories where each line is subset of the next.
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