neutering a male animal by removing the testicles | the act of deleting something written or printed |
surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men) | the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage |
the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work | (genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome |
| any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases |