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XYY syndrome
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XYY syndrome (ksw-w)
n.
A chromosomal anomaly characterized by the presence of one X-chromosome and two Y-chromosomes and thought to be associated with tallness, aggressiveness, and acne.

XYY syndrome
[eks′dob′əlwī′]
the phenotypic manifestation of an extra Y chromosome, which tends to have a positive effect on height and may have a negative effect on mental and psychologic development. However, the anomaly also occurs in normal males. See also trisomy.

XYY syndrome
YY syndrome A condition characterized by an extra Y chromosome, an array of typical clinical features–facial asymmetry, long ears, teeth and fingers, poor musculoskeletal development, cranial synostosis, prolonged P-R on EKG, and a possible tendency toward antisocial behavior


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Bachelor Machines" was inspired by Duchamp's Large Glass and similar machines or machinelike men, such as those in Franz Kafka's short story "In the Penal Colony," Raymond Roussel's Impressions d'Afrique, and Alfred Jarry's Supermale le Surmale, and it had to do with a belief in eternal energy flow as a way to avoid death, as an erotics of life: the bachelor as rebel-model, as antiprocreation.
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