Noun

perturbation

*{{quote-journal, 2007, date=December 22, Heino F. L. Meyer-Bahlburg, Curtis Dolezal, Susan W. Baker and Maria I. New, Sexual Orientation in Women with Classical or Non-classical Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia as a Function of Degree of Prenatal, Archives of Sexual Behavior, url=, doi=10.1007/s10508-007-9265-1, volume=37, issue=1, pages=

, passage=The developmental instability theory explains homosexuality as a perturbance of the complex processes of prenatal brain development by exogenous influences and was originally stimulated by findings of increased non-right handedness among homosexuals of both sexes (Lalumière, Blanchard, & Zucker, 2000 ), but attempts at finding an association of homosexuality with fluctuating asymmetry as a broader index of developmental instability have been unsuccessful (Rahman, 2005 ). }}