Surgical or chemical action that removes use of testicles
This article is about the practice as applied to humans. For livestock, see Neutering.
Not to be confused with Penis removal or Emasculation.
A 15th century Ottoman medical illustration by Sabuncuoğlu Şerafeddin depicting an operation for castration
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Castration is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise, by which a male loses use of the testicles: the male gonad. Surgical castration is bilateral orchiectomy (excision of both testicles), while chemical castration uses pharmaceutical drugs to deactivate the testes. Castration causes sterilization (preventing the castrated person or animal from reproducing); it also greatly reduces the production of hormones, such as testosterone and estrogen. Surgical castration in animals is often called neutering.
Castration of animals is intended to favor a desired development of the animal or of its habits, as an anaphrodisiac or to prevent overpopulation. The parallel of castration for female animals is spaying. castration is also referred medically to oophorectomy in female humans and animals.[1]
The term castration may also be sometimes used to refer to emasculation where both the testicles and the penis are removed together. In some cultures, and in some translations, no distinction is made between the two.
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