Castration

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Castration \Cas*tra"tion\, n. [L. castratio; cf. F. castration.]
     The act of castrating.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  castration
       n 1: neutering a male animal by removing the testicles [syn: {emasculation}]
       2: 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"
       3: the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work
          [syn: {expurgation}]