Assertion: castration | /r/HasAspect | no effect
Facets:
value: on lifespan
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: on their voices
type: LOCATION
value: on rate of growth
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: However, recent studies have shown that this is not so: any apparent muscle mass gained solely from the presence of hormones will be lost over time after the horse is gelded, and in the meantime, the energy spent developing muscle mass may actually take away from the energy a young horse might otherwise put into skeletal growth; the net effect is that castration has no effect on rate of growth (although it may increase the amount of fat the horse carries).
text: Eunuch is a more general term since, historically, many eunuchs were castrated after puberty and thus the castration had no impact on their voices.
text: (1965) found that castration at birth prolonged life from 15.1 months to 17.4 months, but that castration at weaning or at age 100 days had no effect on lifespan.