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peotomies

peotomies is the plural of peotomy.

Meaning of peotomy

Noun

peotomy (plural peotomies)

  1. The removal of the penis.
    • An attack by the renowned Brazilian fishlet known as candiru, which likes to swim up a man's urine stream and lodge in the urethra with a ring of retrorse spines preventing its removal, is one of the very rare circumstances in which the doctor will perform the operation, known as peotomy.1999, Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman, page 192

Questions about peotomies

What is peotomies the plural of?
Peotomies is the plural of peotomy.

Words near peotomies in the dictionary

  1. Peorians
  2. Peorias
  3. peos
  4. peot
  5. peotillomania
  6. peotomies
  7. peotomy
  8. PEOTUS
  9. Peover Inferior
  10. Peover Superior
  11. Peover Superior and Snelson

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