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free-mar·tin
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Free-martinnoun
An imperfect female calf, twinborn with a male, which is sterile as a result of exposure to masculinizing hormones.
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free-martin
A freemartin or free-martin (sometimes martin heifer) is an infertile female cattle with masculinized behavior and non-functioning ovaries. Phenotypically, the animal appears female, but various aspects of female reproductive development are altered due to acquisition of anti-Müllerian hormone from the male twin. Genetically, the animal is chimeric: karyotypy of a sample of cells shows XX/XY chromosomes. The animal originates as a female (XX), but acquires the male (XY) component in utero by exchange of some cellular material from a male twin, via vascular connections between placentas: an example of microchimerism. The chimerism is mainly present in the hematopoietic stem cells.
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Free-martinnoun
an imperfect female calf, twinborn with a male
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of free-martin in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of free-martin in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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