Castration : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Castration	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Castration
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
castration n neutering a male animal by removing the testicles [syn: castration, emasculation] 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" the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work Synonym(s): expurgation, castration
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Castration \Cas*tra"tion\, n. [L. castratio; cf. F. castration.] The act of castrating.