pseudo-, pseud-

Use of a feminine name as a pseudonym; especially, by a male.

Someone who has external genitalia of one sex and internal sex organs of the other sex: A pseudohermaphrodite is not a true hermaphrodite because there is no ambiguity in the sex of the external genitalia and hence no question about the gender of the individual at birth.

A condition in which an individual has the internal reproductive organs of one gender but the external genitalia of the other: Female pseudohermaphroditism is a form in which the affected individual is a genetic and gonadal female with partial masculinization.

Male pseudohermaphroditism is a type in which the person concerned is a genetic and gonadal male; however, with incomplete masculinization.

False, pretended, counterfeit, spurious, or sham history.

1. An excessive fear of what is assumed to be hydrophobia, but which may only seem to be hydrophobia: Some individuals suffering from pseudohydrophobia have an exaggerated and irrational animosity towards rabies, imagining that the disease is present, and therefore they don't drink any water, thinking that it is contaminated with rabies and can cause throat pains.
2. Any viral disease that has symptoms similar to rabies, but which is not: When Jane took her dog which showed symptoms of the infectious disease to the vet, the condition turned out to be just a pseudophydrohobia and quite harmless and easy to cure!

Persistence after birth of the fine hair present during fetal life, because of the inability of the bodily skin to throw it off.

Descriptive reference to an increase in the size of a bodily organ, or part of an organ, resulting from fatty or fibrous tissue.

An increase in size of an organ or a part, due not to an increase in size or the number of the specific functional elements but to that of some other tissue, fatty or fibrous.

A yellowish discoloration of the skin which is not a result of bile pigments,

"He was a real pseudo-intellectual."

A skin discoloration caused by blood changes and not a result of liver disease, as in carotenemia (presence of excess carotene, or orange-yellow to red crystalline pigment in the blood, often resulting in yellowing of the skin).