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or·chi·ec·to·my

(ôr′kē-ĕk′tə-mē) or or·chi·dec·to·my (-kĭ-dĕk′-)
n. pl. or·chi·ec·to·mies or or·chi·dec·to·mies
Surgical removal of one or both testes.

[Greek orkhis, orkhi-, testicle + -ectomy.]
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orchiectomy

Surgery to remove one or both testicles.
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Noun 1. orchiectomy - surgical removal of one or both testicles
ablation, cutting out, extirpation, excision - surgical removal of a body part or tissue
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Translations
orchidectomieorchiectomie

orchiectomy, orchidectomy

n (pl -mies) orquiectomía or orquidectomía
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In this article, we report an unusual case of splenogonadal fusion that was pre-diagnosed as a solid testicular mass in a patient who underwent orchiectomy.
Testicular cancer is very treatable when caught early, with nearly a 90% cure rate with radical orchiectomy and continued surveillance with radiation and or single-agent chemotherapy.
(4) As torsion is a time-sensitive condition, delayed presentation and longer symptom duration lead to higher rates of orchiectomy. Multiple series including two meta-analyses by Visser and Heyns report testicular salvage rates of 90% if detorsion is performed within 6 hours of the onset of symptoms, 50% at 12 hours and 10-25% at 24 hours.
Castration (also known as neutering) is any action, surgical, chemical or otherwise, by which a biological male loses use of the testes (orchiectomy).
He successfully underwent a high orchiectomy and the prognosis is great.
Dois relatos de caso: Autohemotherapy at acupuncture points post orchiectomy surgery in cart horses--eight cases report; e Carcinoma de celulas escamosas em um cao com alopecia por diluicao de cor.
The patient's history included an orchiectomy that had been performed to treat a mixed germ cell tumor.
He stressed project was worked on from April 2007 to July 2009 using testis material donated by 6 adult men who underwent orchiectomy as part of prostate cancer treatment.
Objectives: To assess the effects of flutamide in patients suffering from advanced carcinoma of the prostate who underwent bilateral orchiectomy.
(10) Subsequent involvement of the opposite testicle with lymphoma may occur months to years after orchiectomy and may be of different histologic subtype; thus, a second tumor may represent another primary rather than disseminated disease.