transsexual surgery

1. 1.

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

   Synonymssex-change operation

   Broaderoperation

Questions about transsexual surgery

What does transsexual surgery mean?

transsexual surgery 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 transsexual surgery?

Close synonyms include sex-change operation. 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 transsexual surgery a common word?

transsexual surgery 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.