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hemicastrate

noun

Etymology

From hemi- + castrate.

  1. derived from castrātus
  2. inherited from castrat
  3. prefixed as hemicastrate — “hemi + castrate”

Definitions

  1. A semicastrated animal.

    • The percentage of cells incorporating ³H-thymidine was greater in hemicastrates than in controls at 8 hours, 1, 2, and 4 days after surgery and returned to normal thereafter.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hemicastrate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA