orchidectomizev.
/ˌɔːkᵻˈdɛktəmʌɪz/, U.S. /ˌɔrkəˈdɛktəˌmaɪz/ Surgery.
transitive. To perform orchidectomy on; to castrate.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > operations on specific parts or conditions > perform operation on specific part or condition [verb (transitive)] > operations on male sex organs
cut1638
orchidectomize1942
vasectomize1980
1942 Amer. Jrnl. Anat. 71 456 One castrate member..had been orchidectomized when 12 years of age.
1976 Res. Communications Chem. Pathol. & Pharmacol. 13 697 Rats orchidectomized for 7 days exhibited significant enhancement in the specific activity of cytosolic..protein kinases.
2000 Jrnl. Neuroendocrinol. 12 167 Adult male rhesus monkeys were orchidectomized..or sham-orchidectomized..and killed 6 weeks later.
Derivatives
orchiˈdectomized adj.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > operations on specific parts or conditions > [adjective] > operations on sex organs > operations on male sex organs
vasectomized1900
orchidectomized1957
1957 Biometrics 13 147 Effect of adrenocortical steroids on androgen excretion by adrenalectomized orchidectomized men.
1991 J. Barnes Talking it Over viii. 104 I'm neither a salivating cheque-signer..nor an orchidectomised walker.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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