vasectomy

n. a surgical procedure for male sterilization in which the vas deferens, which carries sperm from the testes to the urethra, is removed, segmented, or cut and the resulting openings blocked. The procedure must be regarded as permanent as it cannot always be reversed.

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Psychology term of the day

November 20th 2024

perceptual synthesis

1. the integration of experience from all the senses to establish knowledge of the external world and one’s interactions with it and to eliminate unessential information about both.

2. in auditory perception, a phenomenon in which people perceive missing sounds or faint sounds when the gap created by them is filled with white noise.