Androtropy

The term androtropy ( synonym : androtropism ) describes the frequent occurrence of a medical deviation (such as a chromosome peculiarity , disease or malformation ) in men and boys. This results in a clearly unbalanced gender ratio. The female equivalent is gynecotropy .

Examples of diseases with androtropy are:

• C syndrome ,
• Dravet syndrome ,
• West syndrome (BNS epilepsy),
• Down syndrome (trisomy 21),
• Norrie Syndrome ,
• Arteriosclerosis , heart attack ,
• Granulomatosis with polyangiitis ,
• Porphyria congenita ( Günther's disease ),
• Perthes (-Calvé-Legg-Waldenström) disease ( Maydl disease ),
• Whipple's disease ,
• Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome ,
• Follicular dyskeratosis ,
• Dysgammaglobulinaemia type I ( hyper-IgM syndrome ),
• Asperger's Syndrome ,
• Landau-Kleffner Syndrome .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pschyrembel clinical dictionary , Verlag deGruyter, 267th edition 2017 ( ISBN 978-3-11-049497-6 ). ( Keyword androtopia, online )
2. ↑ M. Michler, Jost Benedum : Introduction to medical terminology: Medical terminology for doctors and dentists on the basis of Latin and Greek . Springer, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-96112-0 , pp. 275 .