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Definition of "vasectomy" []

  • Surgical removal of all or part of the vas deferens, usually as a means of sterilization. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "vasectomy" in a sentence
  • "You secretly hope that the vasectomy is reversed naturally and you become pregnant again."
  • "But part of this ambivalence involves kinda wanting an ‘accident’, for the decision to be made for me (which, post-vasectomy, is unlikely)."
  • "A vasectomy is an operation in which the tubes through which sperm travels are cut, leaving sperm unable to reach the testes and making a man unable to impregnate a woman."