vasectomy
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tə noun, plural vas·ec·to·mies. Surgery.
excision of the vas deferens, or of a portion of it: performed to effect sterility in men.
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| —n , pl -mies | |
| surgical removal of all or part of the vas deferens, esp as a method of contraception | |
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vasectomy va·sec·to·my (və-sěk'tə-mē, vā-zěk'-)
n.
Surgical removal of all or part of the vas deferens, usually as a means of sterilization. Also called deferentectomy, gonangiectomy.
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| vasectomy (və-sěk'tə-mē) Pronunciation Key
Surgical removal of all or part of the vas deferens, resulting in sterility. |
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vasectomy [(vuh-sek-tuh-mee, vay-zek-tuh-mee)]A surgical procedure in which the ducts that carry sperm out of the testes are cut and tied off so that no sperm can pass. Vasectomy is a form of male sterilization and is used as a method of birth control. The procedure has no effect on a man's capacity to produce semen; the only difference is that his semen will no longer contain sperm.
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Example sentences
Decades after vasectomy became common, it remains widely unloved, doctors say.
Perhaps the law should require vasectomy in these cases but not try to split apart a loving couple.
Then he told her that two years before they'd met, he'd gotten a vasectomy.
Ibid, having stated he's had a vasectomy, has essentially made that decision in the long wrong.
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