castration

surgical or chemical action that removes use of testicles
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castration

Summary

castration ranks in the top 0.15% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,405 views/month, #113 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • castration is a type of removal[2].
  • castration is part of hanged, drawn, quartered and decapitated[3].
  • castration's Commons category is recorded as Castration[4].
  • castration's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Castration[5].
  • castration's described by source is recorded as Nordisk familjebok[6].
  • castration's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[7].
  • castration's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • castration's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • castration's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[10].
  • castration's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[11].
  • castration's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[12].
  • castration's has effect is recorded as eunuch[13].
  • castration's has effect is recorded as castrato[14].
  • castration's different from is recorded as penectomy[15].
  • castration's different from is recorded as penis removal[16].
  • castration's different from is recorded as genital nullification[17].

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Definition and Type

castration is a type of removal[2].

Use and Application

castration is part of hanged, drawn, quartered and decapitated[3].

Why It Matters

castration ranks in the top 0.15% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,405 views/month, #113 of 77,819).[1] castration has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] castration is known by 61 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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