Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The operation of excising a testicle; castration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Surg.) The operation of cutting out or removing a testicle by the knife; castration.
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- noun The
surgical removal of atesticle ;castration .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun surgical incision into the testis to obtain material for analysis (as in cases of abnormally low sperm count)
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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Examples
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Mutilation and infibulation of females have been practised by savages with the same end in view, while vasectomy, orchotomy, and ovariotomy, have had their avowed advocates in our own time.
The Fertility of the Unfit Rutherford Waddell 1900
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