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This article is about the practice as applied to humans. For livestock, see Neutering. Not to be confused with Penis removal or Emasculation. Castration (also known as orchiectomy or orchidectomy) is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise, by which an individual loses use of the testicles: the male gonad. Surgical castration is bilateral orchiectomy (excision of both testicles), and chemical castration uses pharmaceutical drugs to deactivate the testes. Castration causes sterilization (preventing the castrated person or animal from reproducing ); it also greatly reduces the production of certain hormones, such as testosterone. Surgical castration in animals is often called neutering . A medical illustration by Sharaf ad-Din depicting an operation for castration, c. 1466
The term castration is sometimes also used to refer to the removal of the ovaries in the female, otherwise known as an oophorectomy, or the removal of internal testes, otherwise known as gonadectomy.