freemartinism https://www.malacards.org/card/freemartinism A condition occurring in the female offspring of dizygotic twins (twin, dizygotic) in a mixed-sex pregnancy, usually in cattle. Freemartinism can occur in other mammals. When placental fusion between the male and the female fetuses permits the exchange of fetal cells and fetal hormones, testicular hormones from the male fetus can androgenize the female fetus producing a sterile xx/xy chimeric 'female'(chimerism). DOID:4671 EFO:1000939 MONDO:0006762 MESH:D005611 cattle disease difference of sexual differentiation, non-human animal Bos taurus