Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
surgical incision into the testis to obtain material for analysis (as in cases of abnormally low sperm count);
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Orchotomy \Or*chot"o*my\, n. [Gr. ? a testicle + te`mnein to
cut.] (Surg.)
The operation of cutting out or removing a testicle by the
knife; castration.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
orchotomy
n 1: surgical incision into the testis to obtain material for
analysis (as in cases of abnormally low sperm count)