A surgical procedure to remove all or part of the vas deferens, sometimes performed as a birth control method or in cancer treatment.
From deferens (vas deferens, from Latin) + -ectomy (Greek -ektos 'cut out' from temnein 'to cut'). Medical terminology combines Latin anatomical terms with Greek surgical suffixes.
Deferentectomy is the male equivalent of tubal ligation, yet it has roughly 1/50th the cultural awareness. This reveals how medical procedures themselves carry gender biases in how they're discussed and available.
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