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Orchotomy

Definition: Orchotomy

Orchotomy

Noun

1. Surgical incision into the testis to obtain material for analysis (as in cases of abnormally low sperm count).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Orchotomy \Or*chot"o*my\, noun. [Greek expression testicle to cut.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: Orchotomy

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Impotence

Helplessness; Adjective: prostration, paralysis, palsy, apoplexy, syncope, sideration, deliquium, collapse, exhaustion, softening of the brain, inanition; emasculation, orchiotomy, orchotomy.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: Orchotomy

Language Translations for "orchotomy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Ukranian 

  

кастрація (castration, emasculation), видалення я"чок. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Orchotomy"

Words rhyming with "orchotomy" (pronounced 'Or*chot"o*my'): Academy, Adenotomy, Adesmy, Adynamy, Agronomy, Alchemy, Allogamy, Anatomy, Andranatomy, Androtomy, Angiotomy, Anomy, Antinomy, Aplotomy, Apogamy, Aponeurotomy, Archenemy, Army, Arrhytmy, Arteriotomy, Astronomy, Atimy, Autogamy, Autonomy, Belamy, BIGAMY, Bionomy, Blasphemy, Blosmy, Bronchotomy, Capsulotomy, Celotomy, Cephalotomy, Chalazogamy, Chasmy, Chirognomy, Chironomy, Cholecystotomy, Chondrotomy, Cirsotomy, Clammy, Cleronomy, Coenogamy, Colotomy, Craniognomy, Craniotomy, Crummy, Cystotomy, Dactylonomy, Dysnomy. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Orchotomy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-h-m-o-o-o-r-t-y"

-3 letters: chromo, cohort, torchy.

-4 letters: hooty, mooch, moory, mothy, motor, ochry, ortho, roomy, rooty, rotch, thoro, torch.

-5 letters: coho, coot, corm, cory, homo, homy, hoot, moor, moot, mort, moth, myth, room, root, roto, ryot, thro, toom, torc, toro, tory, toyo, troy, tyro.

 Words containing the letters "c-h-m-o-o-o-r-t-y"
 

+2 letters: psychomotor, thoracotomy.

 

+3 letters: oophorectomy.

 

+5 letters: cytophotometry, trichotomously.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Orchotomy


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 72 63 68 6F 74 6F 6D 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

---    .-.    -.-.    ....    ---    -    ---    --    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01110010 01100011 01101000 01101111 01110100 01101111 01101101 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#114 &#99 &#104 &#111 &#116 &#111 &#109 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0072 0063 0068 006F 0074 006F 006D 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

498469748186817991

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams 		5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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