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2025
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| Online-Zugang: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15510010 |
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- <p>Free-martinism was originally reported in 1791 by Hunter; nevertheless, the word “Freemartin” was used at least a century before that, “Free” likely derived from farrow, barren or incapable of reproduction. “Martin” perhaps designates St Martin’s Day (November 11), the date when cattle, including barren, non-pregnant heifers and cows, were typically slaughtered to procure meat for winter. Free-martinism is the severe expression of sexual abnormality in bovines particularly cattle in which a sterile female calf is born twin to a male calf with whom it has interchanged whole blood. This congenitally genital tract altered, sterile female is known as <strong>FREE MARTIN</strong>. This infertility syndrome is economically as well as scientifically significant.</p>