castration

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The act of castrating.

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bilateral castration results in sterilization Source: Internet

Estrogen is also used in the therapy of vaginal atrophy, hypoestrogenism (as a result of hypogonadism, castration, or primary ovarian failure), amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, and oligomenorrhea. Source: Internet

He stressed that the laws against paedophiles had been toughened in Kazakhstan, with child rapists facing chemical castration. Source: Internet

It causes the destruction of starfish ovary and eggs to cause castration (the male gonads are usually unaffected). Source: Internet

Knight argues that the "castration", which is not described, may have kept women youthful, in the sense of allowing the Lydian king to have intercourse with them without pregnancy. Source: Internet

His argument ignored the harm done to farmed animals: pain from branding, dehorning and castration, confinement, transport without food or water to a slaughterhouse, and a frightening death. Source: Internet

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