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Word definitions for vasectomy in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context surgery English) The surgical removal of all or part of the vas deferens, usually as a means of male sterilization.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Even the number of vasectomies has been increased by media ads. ▪ For the male it means a vasectomy - the cutting or tying of the male's sperm ducts. ▪ How does one educate these people into birth control, a vasectomy or sterilisation? ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Vasectomy is a surgical procedure for male sterilization or permanent contraception . During the procedure, the male vas deferens are severed and then tied or sealed in a manner so as to prevent sperm from entering into the seminal stream (ejaculate) and ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1896, from Modern Latin vas (deferens) + -ectomy "a cutting."
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. surgical procedure that removes all or part of the vas deferens (usually as a means of sterilization); is sometimes reversible
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vasectomy \Vas*ec"to*my\ (v[a^]s*[e^]k"t[-o]*m[y^]), n. [Vas + -ecmoty.] (Surg.) Resection or excision of the vas deferens.
Usage examples of vasectomy.
It had taken a good deal of persuasion before he had agreed to have his vasectomy reversed, and then had come all the trauma and problems of the in vitro fertilisation process which would ensure that only eggs resulting in the birth of female children were returned to her womb.
At his dumbfounded look, Rain explained just what a vasectomy entailed.
Craig had been planning to get a vasectomy, but in the month or so that he was totally captivated by Liysa, he put that on hold.
We provide vasectomies to men who have consulted with their partners, whose families are complete, and whose incomes must support those families.
Shifter blood because Running Bear saw to it he and his twin had vasectomies when they were young teens.
He ended up breaking free and taking the ride coiled in a ball on the floor of the vehicle, threatening lawsuits, decertification, and free vasectomies with a dull scalpel on any man who touched him.
He tried Hermitsch on Fall Out & the Andaman Islanders and even Sterilization, Vasectomy and Abortion by Allard, but these holy writs all failed against the pervasive fantasy of the bedder.
It may well know of procedures - aye, vasectomy ought to be simple enough surgery if I can find out how to do it, and reversible by a bit of cloning if ever we get home - or I seem to remember reading once about intrauterine devices - or something in the chemistry - Och, we can consider details later.
It may well know of procedures -- aye, vasectomy ought to be simple enough surgery if I can find out how to do it, and reversible by a bit of cloning if ever we get home -- or I seem to remember reading once about intrauterine devices -- or something in the chemistry -- Och, we can consider details later.
Meanwhile, thousands of husbands are applying to clinics all over Yatakang for vasectomy operations, explaining that they do not want to father inferior progeny now that the chance of optimising the country's population has been offered to them.
To which medical science adds a number of prefixes: appendectomy tonsillectomy mastectomy tubectomy vasectomy testectomy hysterectomy.
These days it wouldn't damage a doctor's practice even if everyone knew he gave vasectomies to alligators with the same instruments he used in his office.