vasectomy

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• /vəˈsɛktəmi/
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• CMU ARPABET: V AE0 Z EH1 K T AH0 M IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From vas- (“vas deferens”) + -ectomy (“surgery involving the excision or removal of a body part”).

31 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: vasectomia — male sterilization
• Chinese Cantonese: 輸精管切除術 /输精管切除术 (syu1 zing1 gun2 cit3 ceoi4 seot6) — male sterilization
• Chinese Mandarin: 輸精管切除術 /输精管切除术 (shūjīngguǎn qiēchúshù) — male sterilization
• Czech: vasektomie — male sterilization
• Danish: vasektomi — male sterilization
• Dutch: vasectomie — male sterilization
• Esperanto: vazektomio — male sterilization
• Finnish: vasektomia — male sterilization
• Finnish: siemenjohdinten katkaisu — male sterilization
• French: vasectomie — male sterilization
• German: Vasektomie — male sterilization
• Greek: αγγειεκτομή (angeiektomí) — male sterilization
• Irish: vaiseachtóime — male sterilization
• Italian: vasectomia — male sterilization
• Japanese: 精管切除術 (seikan setsujojutsu) — male sterilization
• Japanese: パイプカット (paipu katto) — male sterilization
• Lithuanian: vazektomija — male sterilization
• Māori: pokanga aratātea — male sterilization
• Norwegian Bokmål: vasektomi — male sterilization
• Polish: wazektomia — male sterilization
• Portuguese: vasectomia — male sterilization
• Russian: вазэктоми́я (vazɛktomíja) — male sterilization
• Slovak: vazektómia — male sterilization
• Spanish: vasectomía — male sterilization
• Swedish: vasektomi — male sterilization
• Thai: การทําหมันชาย (kaan-tham-man-chaai) — male sterilization
• Turkish: vazektomi — male sterilization
• Ukrainian: вазектомі́я (vazektomíja) — male sterilization
• Vietnamese: thắt ống dẫn tinh — male sterilization
• Welsh: fasdoriad — male sterilization
• Welsh: fasectomi — male sterilization