castration

2 definitions found

castration - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

castration - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  castration
      n 1: neutering a male animal by removing the testicles [syn:
           castration, 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, castration]