Occuring mainly in women, this defect is characterised by a low hairline, webbed neck, a shield-shaped chest with widely spaced nipples and heart malformation. Caused in most cases by damage to the second X chromosome of the sex chromosome resulting in the pattern XO or XXX,
Occuring mainly in women, this defect is characterised by a low hairline, webbed neck, a shield-shaped chest with widely spaced nipples and heart malformation. Caused in most cases by damage to the second X chromosome of the sex chromosome resulting in the pattern XO or XXX, its most revealing symptom is the total lack or only rudimentary traces of ovaries, though in many cases affected women are otherwise normal.
Occuring mainly in women, this defect is characterised by a low hairline, webbed neck, a shield-shaped chest with widely spaced nipples and heart malformation.
{Turner's} syndrome