castration

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men)

   Bilateral castration results in sterilization.

2. 2
   noun

   The act of removing the testicles.

   Castration of bulls was a socialization process that turned a bull into an ox; in this transformation something wild became something very useful; nature became culture.

3. 3
   noun

   the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work

4. 4
   noun

   neutering a male animal by removing the testicles

From castrate + -ion.

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