Crossword clues for castration
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Castration \Cas*tra"tion\, n. [L. castratio; cf. F. castration.] The act of castrating. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., castracioun, from Latin castrationem (nominative castratio), noun of action from past participle stem of castrare "to castrate, emasculate," supposedly from a noun *castrum "knife, instrument that cuts," from PIE root *kes- "to cut" (see caste). Freud's castration complex is attested from 1914 in English (translating German Kastrationsangst).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of removing the testicles. 2 (context figuratively English) Any act that removes power from a person (particularly a man) or entity.
WordNet
n. neutering a male animal by removing the testicles [syn: 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 [syn: expurgation]
Wikipedia
Castration (also known as gonadectomy) is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise, by which an individual loses use of the testicles. Surgical castration is bilateral orchiectomy (excision of both testes), and chemical castration uses pharmaceutical drugs to inactivate the testes. Castration causes sterilization (preventing them from reproducing); it also greatly reduces the production of certain hormones, such as testosterone. Surgical castration in animals is often called neutering.
The term "castration" is sometimes also used to refer to the removal of the ovaries in the female, otherwise known as an oophorectomy or, in animals, spaying. Estrogen levels drop precipitously following oophorectomy, and long-term effects of the reduction of sex hormones are significant throughout the body.
Castration of non-human animals is intended to favour a desired development of the animal or of its habits or to prevent overpopulation.
Usage examples of "castration".
But the cutlass thrust through his belt was as much the symbol of her own unrealized potential, of the castration of her mental bravura, as it was the emblem of the male phallus.
His psyche lacks the Oedipal identification with the father, the mark of symbolic castration.
For three hands-on murders, one of which involved a castration, the fibers amounted to very bare threads of evidence.
Multiple rape followed by disembowelment or impalement was far more common than was enslavement for women and little girls, while in the cases of men and boys, an amusing session of savage tortures and deliberate maimings which invariably included castration was most often followed by slowly roasting them alive, although if the horde happened to be in a hurry, they might cut leg and arm tendons, pull out tongues, gouge or burn out eyes, and just leave the bloody, blind, croaking, flopping sufferer to bleed to death.
Factory, castrator and castrated, or Castro and castration, are able to exchange places with the utmost of ease.
Forget the castration complex, forget the Hegelian struggle for recognition between master and slave.
Only a thin flap of flesh remained where his genitals should have been, and the area around the castration had been savagely punctuated with deep stab wounds.
The total castration of KMEX-TV would be a crippling blow to the Movement.
As I see it, we have already reaped the real benefits of this spectacle -- the almost accidental castration of dehumanized power-mongers like Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Tom Charles Huston, that vicious young jackal of a lawyer from Indianapolis that Nixon put in charge of the Special Domestic Intelligence operation.
Some more spelunking took him to the Geocities page of a person born male who underwent castration, with no hormonal treatments before or for years after.
I was definitely feeling the effects of castration and most certainly felt better all the time without testosterone.
For me the serenity was the strongest of the castration effects, followed by the decrease in libido.
After all, Canadian law considers castration too great a penalty even for rape.
Because of this interrelationship between the pituitary and the gonads, the failure of the pituitary to hold up its end is as surely asexualizing as castration or ovariectomy would be.
Castration has been tested in several other countries, but never in the United States.