Castration before puberty ( or in its early stages ) prevents a boy's larynx from being transformed by the normal physiological events of puberty.

Castration ( also referred to as gelding, spaying, neutering, fixing, orchiectomy, oophorectomy ) is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise, by which a male loses the functions of the testicles or a female loses the functions of the ovaries.

Castration, and the elimination of hormonally driven behavior associated with a stallion, allows a male horse to be calmer and better-behaved, making the animal quieter, gentler and potentially more suitable as an everyday working animal.

* Castration or orchidectomy-the male equivalent

* Adult male after late castration ; see Castration # In veterinary practice

There is an urban legend that a CBC announcer once referred to the network on the air as the " Canadian Broadcorping Castration ", which also sometimes remains in use as a satirical nickname.

Castration is commonly performed on domestic animals not intended for breeding.

Castration anxiety is the fear of emasculation in both the literal and metaphorical sense.

Castration anxiety is the conscious or unconscious fear of losing all or part of the sex organs, or the function of such.

Another example of a recreated blooper stemming from a second-hand report is that of a Canadian announcer stating " This is the Dominion network of the Canadian Broadcorping Castration ," which utilized one of Schafer's voice actors.

Castration of bulls is recommended to occur before entering the feed lot as a precaution against infections and the calves are small enough to be handled easily with minimal stress towards the animal.

* The grindcore band Discordance Axis references Absalom at the end of the track entitled Castration Rite.

Castration of males usually has a pacifying effect on aggressive behavior in males.

Castration of various species in the non-breeding season has no effect on territorial aggression.

Castration was typically carried out on the soon-to-be eunuch without his consent in order that he might perform a specific social function ; this was common in many societies.

Castration as part of religious practice, and eunuchs occupying religious roles have been established prior to classical antiquity.

* Long-Term Consequences of Castration in Men: Lessons from the Skoptzy and the Eunuchs of the Chinese and Ottoman Courts, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism December 1, 1999 vol.

The Castration of Uranus ( mythology ) | Uranus: fresco by Vasari & Cristofano Gherardi ( c. 1560, Sala di Cosimo I, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence ).

Castration was frequently used for religious or social reasons in certain cultures in Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, Africa, and East Asia.

Castration also figured in a number of religious castration cults.

Castration in humans has been proposed, and sometimes used, as a method of birth control in certain poorer regions.

Castration has been used in modern conflicts, such as the Janjaweed militiamen currently () attacking citizens of the Darfur region in Sudan, often castrating villagers and leaving them to bleed to death.

Castration ( as a metaphor ) also plays an important role in psychoanalytically-influenced literary theory, for example Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence.

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* Theresa McCuaig, " Understanding Castration.

* Castration in males.

The Castration of Uranus: fresco by Vasari & Cristofano Gherardi ( c. 1560, Sala di Cosimo I, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence ).

Castration ensured that all sins caused by lepost could not be committed.

Castration of the undescended teste ( s ) should be considered for cryptorchid dogs due to the high rate of testicular cancer, especially sertoli cell tumors.

When a female approaches, the male guides or drives her into his burrow and prevents her from leaving until she oviposits.

If natural selection is the primary error correction mechanism that prevents random mutations on the Y chromosome, then fertility treatments for men with abnormal sperm ( in particular ICSI ) only defer the underlying problem to the next male generation.

This action of androgens is supported by a hormone from Sertoli cells, MIH ( Müllerian inhibitory hormone ), which prevents the embryonic Müllerian ducts from developing into fallopian tubes and other female reproductive tract tissues in male embryos.

If one male is significantly smaller than the other, he may move next to the larger male in a parallel position and push from there, which prevents the larger male from pushing with all his force.

This water repellent layer prevents the aqueous developer from penetrating between the photoresist layer and the wafer's surface, thus preventing so-called lifting of small photoresist structures in the ( developing ) pattern.

In his book A Random Walk Down Wall Street, Princeton economist Burton Malkiel said that technical forecasting tools such as pattern analysis must ultimately be self-defeating: " The problem is that once such a regularity is known to market participants, people will act in such a way that prevents it from happening in the future.

The dominant, wild-type A causes the agouti shift phenomenon which causes hairs to be black pigmented at the tips and orange pigmented at the roots ( revealing the underlying tabby pattern ), while the recessive non-agouti or " hypermelanistic " allele, a, prevents this shift in the pigmentation pathway.

Post / Redirect / Get ( PRG ) is a web development design pattern that prevents some duplicate form submissions, creating a more intuitive interface for user agents ( users ).

Using the private class data design pattern prevents that undesirable manipulation.

Although steric hindrance is sometimes a problem ( it prevents S < sub > N </ sub > 2 reactions with tertiary substrates from taking place ), it can also be a very useful tool, and is often exploited by chemists to change the reactivity pattern of a molecule by stopping unwanted side-reactions ( steric protection ) or by leading to a preference for one stereochemical reaction course as in diastereoselectivity.

The blur makes the image less sharp, but prevents the formation of Moiré pattern aliasing artifacts.

Application of serotonergic antagonists prevents the network from producing the swimming pattern, and hence this intranetwork modulation appears essential for network oscillation.

The dorsal swim interneurons ( DSIs ) of the circuit release serotonin to convert to " swim mode ," while application of serotonergic antagonists prevents the swim pattern.