sex-linked disorder

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   any disease or abnormality that is determined by the sex hormones

   “hemophilia is determined by a gene defect on an X chromosome”

   Broaderchromosomal aberration

   NarrowerhemophiliaTurner's syndrome

Questions about sex-linked disorder

What does sex-linked disorder mean?

sex-linked disorder means "any disease or abnormality that is determined by the sex hormones".

Is sex-linked disorder a common word?

sex-linked disorder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.