"vasectomy" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /vəˈsɛktəmi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-vasectomy.wav [Southern-England] Forms: vasectomies [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛktəmi Etymology: vas (short for vas deferens) + -ectomy (“surgery involving the excision or removal of a body part”). Etymology templates: {{m|en|vas deferens}} vas deferens, {{affix|en|vas|-ectomy|pos1=short for <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">vas deferens</i>|t2=surgery involving the excision or removal of a body part}} vas (short for vas deferens) + -ectomy (“surgery involving the excision or removal of a body part”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} vasectomy (plural vasectomies)
  1. (surgery) The surgical incision of all or part of the vas deferens as a means of male sterilization. Categories (topical): Birth control, Surgery Derived forms: postvasectomy, prevasectomy, vasectomise, vasectomist, vasectomization, vasectomize Translations (male sterilization): vasectomia [feminine] (Catalan), 輸精管切除術 (Chinese Mandarin), 输精管切除术 (shūjīngguǎn qiēchúshù) (Chinese Mandarin), vasektomie [feminine] (Czech), vasektomi [common-gender] (Danish), vasectomie [feminine] (Dutch), vazektomio (Esperanto), vasektomia (Finnish), siemenjohdinten katkaisu (Finnish), vasectomie (French), Vasektomie [feminine] (German), αγγειεκτομή (angeiektomí) [feminine] (Greek), vaiseachtóime [feminine] (Irish), vasectomia [feminine] (Italian), 精管切除術 (seikan setsujojutsu) (alt: せいかんせつじょじゅつ) (Japanese), パイプカット (paipu katto) (Japanese), vazektomija [feminine] (Lithuanian), pokanga aratātea (Maori), vasektomi [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), vasectomia [feminine] (Portuguese), вазэктоми́я (vazɛktomíja) [feminine] (Russian), vasectomía [feminine] (Spanish), vasektomi [common-gender] (Swedish), vazektomi (Turkish), вазектомі́я (vazektomíja) [feminine] (Ukrainian), thắt ống dẫn tinh (Vietnamese), fasdoriad [masculine] (Welsh), fasectomi [masculine] (Welsh)

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