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View synonyms for orchiectomy

orchiectomy

[awr-kee-ek-tuh-mee]

noun

Surgery.

plural

orchiectomies 

  1. excision of one or both testes; castration.

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She had learned during her examination that she needed to push back her surgery until the fall so that her orchiectomy scars would be fully healed.

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