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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.