peotomy

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πέος (péos, “penis”) + -tomy.

Noun

peotomy (plural peotomies)

1. (surgery) The removal of the penis.
   • 1999, Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman, page 192:

     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.

Related terms

• autopeotomy