peotomy

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noun

The removal of the penis.

OriginAncient Greek πέος →
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Meanings

nounpeotomy (plural peotomies)

plural peotomies

  1. medicineThe removal of the penis.

    An attack by the renowned Brazilian fishlet known as candiru, which likes to swim up a man's urine stream and lodge in the urethra with a ring of retrorse spines preventing its removal, is one of the very rare circumstances in which the doctor will perform the operation, known as peotomy.

    1999, Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman, page 192

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekπέος“penis”
  2. Englishpeotomy

From Ancient Greek πέος (péos, “penis”) + -tomy.

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