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vasectomy en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /vəˈsɛktəmi/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From vas- (“vas deferens”) + -ectomy (“surgery involving the excision or removal of a body part”).

Meanings

1. The surgical incision of all or part of the vas deferens as a means of male sterilization.
   • The experimental vasectomy operation was performed under sodium pentobarbital (50 mg/kg body weight, i.p) anesthesia via a lower midabdominal incision as described elsewhere. 2015 July 10, “Abnormal Accumulation of Collagen Type I Due to the Loss of Discoidin Domain Receptor 2 (Ddr2) Promotes Testicular Interstitial Dysfunction”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
   • Middle-aged, married fathers make up the bulk of those who have gotten vasectomies, with less than two percent of unmarried men relying on vasectomy for contraception, according to one analysis of data between 2002 and 2015 by the Department of Health and Human Services. 2022 August 12, Alisha Haridasani Gupta, “‘Snip Snip Hooray’: Vasectomies Among the Young and Child-Free May Be Rising”, in The New York Times:
   • In fact, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., so many men sign up for vasectomies during March Madness that appointments reach “max capacity,” said Dr. Tobias S. Kohler, a urologist and men’s health expert at the medical center who has observed this phenomenon ever since he was an attending physician a decade ago. 2019 March 28, Christina Caron, “Why Don’t More American Men Get Vasectomies?”, in The New York Times:

Forms

Coordinates

tubal ligation

Deriveds

vasectomise · vasectomization · vasectomize · vasectomist · postvasectomy · bafflectomy · prevasectomy · vasectomized · vasectomee

Translations (31)

eo vazektomio (male sterilization) · fr vasectomie (male sterilization) · sv vasektomi (male sterilization) · da vasektomi (male sterilization) · cmn 輸精管切除術 /输精管切除术 (male sterilization) · yue 輸精管切除術 /输精管切除术 (male sterilization) · vi thắt ống dẫn tinh (male sterilization) · ru вазэктоми́я (male sterilization) · ja パイプカット (male sterilization) · it vasectomia (male sterilization) · de Vasektomie (male sterilization) · nl vasectomie (male sterilization) · mi pokanga aratātea (male sterilization) · lt vazektomija (male sterilization) · sk vazektómia (male sterilization) · fi vasektomia (male sterilization) · cs vasektomie (male sterilization) · fi siemenjohdinten katkaisu (male sterilization) · cy fasectomi (male sterilization) · nb vasektomi (male sterilization) · pt vasectomia (male sterilization) · el αγγειεκτομή (male sterilization) · th การทำหมันชาย (male sterilization) · es vasectomía (male sterilization) · cy fasdoriad (male sterilization) · pl wazektomia (male sterilization) · tr vazektomi (male sterilization) · uk вазектомі́я (male sterilization) · ca vasectomia (male sterilization) · ga vaiseachtóime (male sterilization) · ja 精管切除術 (male sterilization)