Speaker, isn’t androgyny the condition of having both male and female characteristics? (I know you might be too young for this reference, but think David Bowie in his Thin White Duke days… then again, I might even have got that reference wrong; wouldn’t surprise me)
As for whether there are male-focused counterparts to the gynecologists of this world, you might be looking for the word “urologist.”
Just to m,ake sure, though (these results were all taken from www. dictionary.com)…
Results for “androgyny”:
Results for “urologist”:
Oops. :o I messed up on that one. Mea culpa. (hey, all the urology jokes I ever heard involoved men going to their urologists to find out what was wrong, not women… guess I just assumed too much again)
Results for “proctologist”:
Well, if you’re looking for someone that specializes in treating male conditions, this is apparently not it, either. (although all the proctologist jokes I’ve ever heard deal with a male taking his problems to the doctor, again)
Will a doctor kindly make a house call to this thread and answer poor Speaker’s question? We’re doing a poor job of it, here.
“A urologist is a physician who has specialized knowledge and skill with regard to problems of the male and female urinary tract and the male reproductive organs.”
IANAD, but I’ve always had the impression that urologists deal with the male reproductive system.
My FiL is a urologist. They can do both, but the majority of their patients are men. I would say a urologist is the closest you could come to an equivalent of a gynecologist for men. But I would say there is no male equivalent for obstetrics.
Yes, this is true. However, Speaker was correct in his quetsion. “Andr” is the Greek root for “man”, and “gyn” is the Greek root for woman; hence “androgyny” is having both “andr” and “gyn”.
