eunuch(Greek > Latin: literally, guardian of the bed)eunuch
1. a castrated man employed as a harem attendant or functionary in certain Oriental courts.
2. A castrated man, employed in Asia, and later in Greece, to take charge of the women and to act as a chamberlain. 3. A man or boy deprived of the testes or the external genital organs, especially one castrated before puberty (so that male secondary sex characteristics fail to develop). eunuchism
The condition of being a eunuch or of having undeveloped sexual organs in which testicular hormones are not produced.
eunuchoidism
A deficiency of the testes or of testicular secretion, with impaired sexual power and eunuch-like symptoms.
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