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Medical Definition of Gonadal agenesis
1. Congenital absence of essentially all gonadal tissue; the external genitalia and genital ducts are female, but if interstitial cells of Leydig are present, the external genitalia are commonly ambiguous and the genital ducts are female. See: gonadal dysgenesis. Compare: Klinefelter's syndrome, Turner's syndrome. Synonym: gonadal agenesis. (05 Mar 2000)