cas·trate

(kăs′trāt′)

tr.v. cas·trat·ed, cas·trat·ing, cas·trates

1. To remove the testicles of (a male); geld or emasculate.

2. To remove the ovaries of (a female); spay.

3. To deprive of virility or spirit; emasculate.

An individual who is incapable of reproduction as a result of removal, destruction, or inactivation of the gonads.

[Latin castrāre, castrāt-; see kes- in Indo-European roots.]

cas′trat·er, cas′tra·tor n.

cas·tra′tion n.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	castration - neutering a male animal by removing the testicles emasculation altering, neutering, fixing - the sterilization of an animal; "they took him to the vet for neutering"
	2.	castration - 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" surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process, surgery, operation - a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery"
	3.	castration - the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work expurgation deletion - the act of deleting something written or printed bowdlerisation, bowdlerization - the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent

castration

noun

The act or an instance of making one incapable of reproducing sexually:

sterilization.

Translations

خَصْي

кастрация

kastrace

kastration

Kastration

ευνουχισμός

castration

kiherélés

vönun, gelding

castrazione accapponatura

거세

castratie

kastrering

kastrácia

burma hadımiğdiş etme

阉割

castration

[kæsˈtreɪʃən] N → castración f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

castration

[ˌkæˈstreɪʃ^ən] n [man, animal] → castration f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

castration

n → Kastration f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

castration

[kæsˈtreɪʃ/ən] n → castrazione f

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

castrate

(kӕˈstreit) , ((American) ˈkӕstreit) verb

to remove the sexual organs of (a male animal). The bull has been castrated.

caˈstration noun

castration

n castración f

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References in periodicals archive

The experiment groups were formed as; Group 1 The Control Group (No castration), Group 2 (Surgical castration group) and Group 3 (Chemical castration group).

The Effect of Chemical and Surgical Castration on the Live Weight Gain and some Hormones of Male Norduz Sheep

Castration is a common procedure, performed by all functionaries of Animal Husbandry department.

Surgical Management of Hydrocele - A Common Complication of Closed Method of Castration - A Report of 18 Bulls

Time since castration- most of the included in the study were within 1 year of castration. Most of the patients' mean time since castration was 11.90 + 15.75 months with a range of 1-60 months.

A prospective study to evaluate the effects of sodium Alendronate (an oral bisphosphonate) on Bone Mineral Density (BMD) in patients with carcinoma prostate treated with hormonal manipulation

C.J.R (2) addresses the Denver Probate Court's authorization of chemical castration by means of involuntarily administering Depo-Provera to a male patient exhibiting inappropriate and aggressive sexual behavior.

Constitutional Law - State Authorization of Forcible Administration of Depo-Provera Invalid Under Colorado Statutory Law - People ex rel. C.J.R

Global Markets Direct's, 'Metastatic Hormone Refractory (Castration Resistant, Androgen-Independent) Prostate Cancer - Pipeline Review, H1 2016', provides an overview of the Metastatic Hormone Refractory (Castration Resistant, Androgen-Independent) Prostate Cancer pipeline landscape.

Metastatic Hormone Refractory (Castration Resistant, Androgen-Independent) Prostate Cancer

Before one begins to conjure up lurid visions of physical mutilation, it is useful to clarify here that castration here refers to chemical castration.

Rising Child Rapes

The court was hearing a plea filed by Supreme Court Women Lawyers' Association ( SCWLA) through its General Secretary Prerna Kumari demanding castration of child sex abusers.

SC moots harsher punishment for child sex offenders

In 2011, South Korea became the first Asian country to use chemical castration as a punishment.

Indonesia to use chemical castration to punish paedophiles -- Attorney General

KEY WORDS: Castration, eunuch, Eunuch Archive, fiction, sexual

The sexual side of castration narratives: fiction written by and for eunuchs and eunuch "wannabes"

It describes the medical context in terms of the practice of castration in the treatment of hysteric women between 1878 and 1895, arguing that this happened to Eckstein and influenced Freud and his theorizing of psychoanalysis, and the theories and practice of Freud between 1895 and 1896 and his position against female castration as a cure for hysteric women, with discussion of the specimen dream of psychoanalysis, the dream of Irma's injection, and how Eckstein's childhood trauma of circumcision caused a psychic reaction in Freud that determined key aspects of his self-analysis and theorizing.

The Cut and the Building of Psychoanalysis, Volume 1: Sigmund Freud and Emma Eckstein

The objective of this experiment was to evaluate the effects of post pubertal castration on blood hormone level, weight gain and body size of Wannan cattle.

Effect of Post-pubertal Castration of Wannan Cattle on Daily Weight Gain, Body Condition Scoring and Level of Blood Hormone