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発音

• IPA: /vəˈsɛktəmi/
• 韻: -ɛktəmi

名詞

vasectomy (plural vasectomies)

1. (surgery) The surgical incision of all or part of the vas deferens as a means of male sterilization.

   Coordinate term: tubal ligation (analogous procedure for female anatomy)

   • 2015 July 10, “Abnormal Accumulation of Collagen Type I Due to the Loss of Discoidin Domain Receptor 2 (Ddr2) Promotes Testicular Interstitial Dysfunction”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:

     The experimental vasectomy operation was performed under sodium pentobarbital (50 mg/kg body weight, i.p) anesthesia via a lower midabdominal incision as described elsewhere.

   • 2019 March 28, Christina Caron, “Why Don’t More American Men Get Vasectomies?”, in The New York Times‎:

     In fact, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., so many men sign up for vasectomies during March Madness that appointments reach “max capacity,” said Dr. Tobias S. Kohler, a urologist and men’s health expert at the medical center who has observed this phenomenon ever since he was an attending physician a decade ago.

   • 2022 August 12, Alisha Haridasani Gupta, “‘Snip Snip Hooray’: Vasectomies Among the Young and Child-Free May Be Rising”, in The New York Times‎:

     Middle-aged, married fathers make up the bulk of those who have gotten vasectomies, with less than two percent of unmarried men relying on vasectomy for contraception, according to one analysis of data between 2002 and 2015 by the Department of Health and Human Services.

派生語

Further reading

• vasectomy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia