http://wordie.org/words/peotomy Comments for the word 'Peotomy' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/peotomy#comments "The surgical removal of the penis is at the best of times a dangerous practice, rarely performed even by doctors: An attack by the renowned Brazilian <a href="/words/fishlet">fishlet</a> known as 'candiru,' which likes to swim up a man's urine stream and lodge in the urethra with a ring of <a href="/words/retrorse">retrorse</a> spines preventing its removal, is one of the very rare circumstances in which doctor (sic) will perform the operation, known as a peotomy."<br /><br /><i>The Professor and the Madman</i>, Simon Winchester Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:17:46 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/peotomy#comments