chemical castration

English

Noun

chemical castration (countable and uncountable, plural chemical castrations)

1. A medical treatment using a anaphrodisiacal hormonal drug to inhibit the function of a man's testes, intended to have the same effect on the sex drive as surgical castration. It is typically used on sex offenders as a punishment and/or preventative measure, or on people wishing to undergo male-to-female transsexualism.

Translations

medical treatment to inhibit the function of a man's testes

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 化學閹割／化学阉割 (huàxué yāngē)

• Finnish: kemiallinen kastraatio
• French: castration chimique (fr) f
• Korean: 화학적 거세 (hwahakjeok geose)
• Malayalam: രാസഷണ്ഡീകരണം (rāsaṣaṇḍīkaraṇaṁ)
• Polish: kastracja chemiczna f
• Spanish: castración química f