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Castration

Surgical or chemical action that removes use of testicles

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 29, 2026
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Castration is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise, that disables the function of testes in males: the male gonad. Surgical castration is bilateral orchiectomy, while chemical castration uses pharmaceutical drugs to deactivate the testes. Some forms of castration cause sterilization ; it also greatly reduces the production of sex hormones, such as testosterone and estrogen. Surgical castration in animals is often called neutering.

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This entry incorporates text from “Castration” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.