Castration
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men)
polysemous
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- emasculationexpurgation
- plural
- Castrations
- possessive
- Castration's
- pluralpossessive
- Castrations'