vasectomy

noun

Etymology: From vas- (“vas deferens”) + -ectomy (“surgery involving the excision or removal of a body part”).

1. The surgical incision of all or part of the vas deferens as a means of male sterilization.

   “The experimental vasectomy operation was performed under sodium pentobarbital (50 mg/kg body weight, i.p) anesthesia via a lower midabdominal incision as described elsewhere.”

   “In fact, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., so many men sign up for vasectomies during March Madness that appointments reach “max capacity,” said Dr. Tobias S. Kohler, a urologist and men’s health expert at the medical center who has observed this phenomenon ever since he was an attending physician a decade ago.”