Peotomy

Full definition of peotomy

Noun

1. (medical) removal of the penis1999, Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman, 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.

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• autopeotomy