sex-change operation

1. 1.

   surgical procedures and hormonal treatments designed to alter a person's sexual characteristics so that the resemble those of the opposite sex

   Synonymstranssexual surgery

   Broaderoperation

Questions about sex-change operation

What does sex-change operation mean?

sex-change operation means "surgical procedures and hormonal treatments designed to alter a person's sexual characteristics so that the resemble those of the opposite sex".

What is another word for sex-change operation?

Close synonyms include transsexual surgery. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sex-change operation a common word?

sex-change operation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.