What's the difference between castrate and eunuch?
Castrate
Definition:
(v. t.) To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter.
(v. t.) To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intact rams exhibited GH secretory episodes of greater (P less than 0.01) amplitude than did castrated lambs.
(2) Positive feedback effects on serum gonadotrophins in castrates were observed following injection of certain doses of some steroids.
(3) In contrast, castration during pseudopregnancy did not abolish the secondary peaks.
(4) No specific labeling could be detected in the adrenocorticotrophs of adrenalectomized rats or gonadotrophs (castration cells) of castrated rats.
(5) In a final experiment, prostatic atrophy in castrate rats was not enhanced by either adrenalectomy or flutamide treatment.
(6) Castrated rams did not show this increase, with or without supplementary testosterone.
(7) Naloxone also prevented testosterone's negative feedback inhibition of serum LH in the castrated male rat.
(8) Moreover, the levels of these parameters were comparable in tumours whether implanted in non-castrated or gonadectomized animals.
(9) Castration of male rats results in a decrease in submandibular gland RSKG-7 mRNA, which can be restored to the normal level by treatment with thyroxine or testosterone.
(10) In vivo administration of anti-EGF antibody or anti-TGF-alpha antibody significantly reduced estrogen-induced labelling index in castrated mouse uterus.
(11) In castrates, the prostatic stroma became thickened, with a large increase in fibrous material between and surrounding each acinus, although smooth muscle cells retained their normal cytology.
(12) Median survival was significantly prolonged in primed animals 191 vs 40 days for untreated animals and 150 days for the nonprimed castration + chemotherapy animals (P less than 0.02).
(13) Adreno-cortical compensation of the concentration of the hormone did not occur in the post-castration period.
(14) Rat dorsal prostate epithelium was studied in intact adult animals, in animals castrated for three days and in rats after inhibition of prolactin secretion.
(15) The ability of melatonin to influence LH pulse frequency in entire and castrated rams indicated that an effect of melatonin on the hypothalamic pulse generator is independent of testicular steroids.
(16) The treatment with supraphysiological doses of the gonadotropin releasing hormone analogue Buserelin results in the suppression of serum testosterone to castration range with a probability of 95% after 28 days.
(17) To determine the effect of photoperiod on substance P, peptide containing neurons were counted in (1) enucleates (n = 6), (2) enucleated castrates treated with testosterone (n = 6), (3) castrates treated with testosterone (n = 4), and (4) intact controls (n = 6).
(18) In addition, there was a marginally significant (P less than 0.1) relationship between prolactin secretion in the castrate ram and the stage of testicular activity in the entire rams with elevated levels associated with regressed activity.
(19) In terms of total cellular receptor content, initial levels were higher in castrate animals, but rapidly fell to intact levels within an hour following estradiol injection.
(20) The effect of naloxone administration on the LH-RH secretion in hypophyseal portal blood and LH secretion in peripheral blood was studied in four short term castrated rams (between 2 to 4 days after castration).
Eunuch
Definition:
(n.) A male of the human species castrated; commonly, one of a class of such persons, in Oriental countries, having charge of the women's apartments. Some of them, in former times, gained high official rank.
(v. t.) Alt. of Eunuchate
Example Sentences:
(1) A semi-structured interview has been used to evaluate sexual functioning in transvestite-eunuchs known as Hijaras of India.
(2) But joke after joke homes in on their stupidity: "A man from Abdera, seeing a eunuch chatting with a woman, asked someone else if it was the eunuch's wife.
(3) A patient with isolated LH deficiency ("fertile eunuch" syndrome) was given synthetic gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) by a single intravenous injection and serum levels of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), luteinizing hormone (LH), testosterone and dihydrotestosterone were measured.
(4) Eunuchs often acquired influential positions administering wealthy Muslim households.
(5) As Fallon’s Alternative Fact playbook nudged its way towards a tedious stalemate, Michael Gove chipped in to complain that “the Labour party were like eunuchs complaining about the cost of viagra” before sitting down looking even more pleased with himself than usual.
(6) Unlike the female eunuch created by Gaskell, she was obsessed with her sensuality.
(7) At the time of the examination they had been eunuchs on the average for 54 years (41-65 years).
(8) "From the moment you decide to enter politics, you can't be expected to live like a total eunuch and have no social life at all," he said.
(9) She'll soon meet her suitor, Petyr Baelish, who had previously lived in happy synechthry with a eunuch spymaster in King's Landing, and who now finds himself charged with wooing his dead beloved's sister and taking command of a haunted castle.
(10) In the same year, an Australian academic called Germaine Greer published a surprise bestseller called The Female Eunuch .
(11) Most of the samples were from males (2373 males vs. 626 females and 1 eunuch).
(12) I just thought, for her, who came into public consciousness for writing The Female Eunuch, for being the feminist of our times, to end up talking like that for cheap laughs about another woman was really a very sad thing.” The Newsweek article featured a poll of 3,000 British adults on changing attitudes towards members of the royal family, and found 43% of respondents thought the duchess represented a “step forward for women and represents modern women”.
(13) afiercebadrabbit 10 October 2014 2:32pm I read my mother's copy of The Female Eunuch when I was about 12, not long after it came out.
(14) The functioning of the hypothalamo-pituitary-target organs axis was assessed in 3 patients with 'fertile eunuch' syndrome (FE) and 6 patients with 'classic' hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism (HH) with or without hyposmia.
(15) In 1960, there were 26 eunuchs from the palace of the Qing Dynasty still living in Beijing.
(16) There were eunuchs (castrated men) and mukhannathun (effeminate men) to whom the rules of gender segregation did not apply: they were allowed access to the women’s quarters, presumably because there was thought to be no likelihood of sexual misbehaviour.
(17) Audience members have fainted at public readings, and comparisons have been drawn to JG Ballard's Crash, The Catcher In The Rye by JD Salinger and Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch.
(18) In Hinduism, the Hijra community (eunuchs) – neither born male nor female, but self-identified as female – are historically believed to have the power to grant wishes and cast spells, and are often present at weddings and births.
(19) Genetic disturbances of isolated pituitary hormone secretion without dwarfism may occur as isolated gonadotropin deficiency (IGD), isolated luteinizing hormone deficiency ("fertile eunuch"), Kallmann syndrome (olfactogenital dysplasia), isolated thyrotropin deficiency (ITD) and isolated corticotropin deficiency (ICD).
(20) He is best known for a 1968 historical drama called The Eunuch, about concubines and emasculated servants unable to consummate their secret love.