Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Amputation of the penis.
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- noun medicine removal of the penis
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Examples
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And their only interest was the fact that there was a word, and they said moreover the word ` peotomy, 'which is the amputation of the penis and which appears in the book -- in the dictionary -- exists, but
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"Yes, Mildred - peotomy is the amputation of the penis.
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"The surgical removal of the penis is at the best of times a dangerous practice, rarely performed even by doctors: 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 doctor (sic) will perform the operation, known as a peotomy."
The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester
March 29, 2008