vasectomy

IPA: væzˈɛktʌmi

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

Examples of "vasectomy" in Sentences

It calls a vasectomy or tubal ligation mutilation.
You’ll feel better in 2011, if the vasectomy is a success.
A vasectomy is the surgical removal of a small piece of the vas deferens.
I don’t know how much my strong longing was because a vasectomy is so FINAL.
You secretly hope that the vasectomy is reversed naturally and you become pregnant again.
Sperm banking before vasectomy is not a guarantee of future fertility, since frozen and thawed sperm may be less viable than fresh sperm.
But part of this ambivalence involves kinda wanting an ‘accident’, for the decision to be made for me (which, post-vasectomy, is unlikely).
A vasectomy is an operation in which the tubes through which sperm travels are cut, leaving sperm unable to reach the testes and making a man unable to impregnate a woman.
It's because vasectomy is a brief office procedure performed under local anesthesia, compared to a tubal ligation, which is an intra-abdominal procedure performed under general anesthesia.