Meanings
verbovariectomize (third-person singular simple present ovariectomizes, present participle ovariectomizing, simple past and past participle ovariectomized)
present singular third person ovariectomizes · participle present ovariectomizing · participle past ovariectomized · past ovariectomized
- transitiveTo remove the ovaries from.
Males castrated at birth are smaller (Field et al., 1997a ), and females ovariectomized at birth are larger than their intact male and female counterparts (Field et al., 2004 ).
2007 December 11, Evelyn F. Field, Sergio M. Pellis, “The Brain as the Engine of Sex Differences in the Organization of Movement in Rats”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 37, number 1, →DOI
Origin
Translations
Italian ovariectomizzare
- ovariectomizzareTranslations
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