• A disorder also known as complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (CAIS). The 46,XY genetic male totally lacks androgen responsiveness in the target organs thus exhibits a female phenotype.
  NLM Medical Subject Headings
  U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
• Aspects of female morphology in a XY genotype caused by defects in cellular receptors for testosterone and dihydrotestosterone, transmitted as an x-linked trait.
  CRISP Thesaurus
  National Institutes of Health, 2006
• (complete androgen insensitivity syndrome) A genetic disorder associate with a mutation in the AR gene, resulting in the complete resistance to androgenic hormones.
  NCI
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
• (complete androgen insensitivity syndrome) Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (CAIS) is a form of androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS; see this term), a disorder of sex development (DSD), characterized by the presence of female external genitalia in a 46,XY individual with normal testis development but undescended testes and unresponsiveness to age-appropriate levels of androgens.
  OrphaNet
  INSERM, 2021
• Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome is a condition that affects sexual development before birth and during puberty. People with this condition are genetically male (one X and one Y chromosome) but do not respond to male hormones at all. As a result, they generally have normal female external genitalia and female breasts. However,...
  NIH Genetic and Rare Diseases
  National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences