castration
[kæs'treʃən]
- n. 阉割；[农学] 去雄
英英释意
- 1. neutering a male animal by removing the testicles
- 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