vasectomy

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vəˈsɛktəmi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛktəmi

Noun

vasectomy (plural vasectomies)

1. (surgery) The surgical incision of all or part of the vas deferens as a means of male sterilization.

   Coordinate term: tubal ligation (analogous procedure for female anatomy)

Derived terms

• postvasectomy
• prevasectomy
• vasectomise
• vasectomist
• vasectomization
• vasectomize

 

Translations

male sterilization

• Catalan: vasectomia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 輸精管切除術／输精管切除术 (shūjīngguǎn qiēchúshù)

• Czech: vasektomie (cs) f
• Danish: vasektomi c
• Dutch: vasectomie (nl) f
• Esperanto: vazektomio
• Finnish: vasektomia (fi), siemenjohdinten katkaisu
• French: vasectomie (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Vasektomie (de) f
• Greek: αγγειεκτομή (el) f (angeiektomí)
• Irish: vaiseachtóime f
• Italian: vasectomia f
• Japanese: 精管切除術 (せいかんせつじょじゅつ, seikan setsujojutsu), パイプカット (ja) (paipu katto)
• Lithuanian: vazektomija f
• Maori: pokanga aratātea
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vasektomi m

• Portuguese: vasectomia (pt) f
• Russian: вазэктоми́я (ru) f (vazɛktomíja)
• Slovak: vazektómia f
• Spanish: vasectomía (es) f
• Swedish: vasektomi (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: vazektomi
• Ukrainian: вазектомі́я (uk) f (vazektomíja)
• Vietnamese: thắt ống dẫn tinh
• Welsh: fasdoriad m, fasectomi m

Further reading

• vasectomy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia