female circumcision
Noun
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Noun
female circumcision
- (medicine, science) The removal of the clitoral hood, the female prepuce cognate to the foreskin removed in the male equivalent.
- Phimosis of the prepuce of the clitoris: indication for female circumcision ↗ by D G McLintock in J R Soc Med. 1985 March; 78(3): 257–258
- (sometimes, proscribed, possibly dated) Any operation involving removal of any of various parts of the female external genital organs including and in addition to the hood, such as the clitoris or labia; regarded as mutilation in many societies. [from 17th c.]
- French: excision
- German: weibliche Genitalverstümmelung, weibliche Genitalbeschneidung, Beschneidung des weiblichen Genitals, Beschneidung der Frau, Klitorisbeschneidung, Beschneidung weiblicher Genitalien
- Russian: же́нское обреза́ние
- Spanish: circuncisión femenina, ablación del clítoris
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