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Medical Term

X-chromosome

also: x-chromosomes

the SEX CHROMOSOME present in the males and females, although women have a pair and men just one (with one Y-CHROMOSOME ). Certain disorders, such as HAEMOPHILIA , are carried as GENES on the X-chromosome.

Source: mediLexicon corpus · slug x-chromosome