Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Surgical removal of all or part of the clitoris.
- noun Female genital mutilation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In surgery, excision of the clitoris.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun surgery The surgical procedure to remove all or part of the
clitoris ;female circumcision .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun excision of the clitoris
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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By that, he meant the practice of clitoridectomy, which is followed in some traditional Islamic cultures.
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The Ilchamus practise a form of FGM/C known as clitoridectomy, the removal of all or part of the clitoris.
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The Ilchamus practise a form of FGM/C known as clitoridectomy, the removal of all or part of the clitoris.
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The most "minor" - known as clitoridectomy - is the partial or total removal of the clitoris.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Mona Eltahawy 2010
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The most "minor" - known as clitoridectomy - is the partial or total removal of the clitoris.
iToot Stream Somebody 2010
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The most "minor" - known as clitoridectomy - is the partial or total removal of the clitoris.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Mona Eltahawy 2010
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The most "minor" - known as clitoridectomy - is the partial or total removal of the clitoris.
iToot Stream 2010
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I am neither female, nor African ... but still I think maybe the people who agitate (understandably) against this practice would get further if instead of calling it "circumcision" (which is most definitely is not), they called it "clitoridectomy" (or at least it's country cousin, "clitorectomy").
Mrs Goundo's Daughter aka TBTAM 2009
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Dwarfism would have totally been the thing to beat (out of all the girls-with-the-things like Fatima with her clitoridectomy and Heather with her Aspergers and Isis with her penis and Tahlia with her suckage).
fourfour: 2009
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In Beijing, after watching a video about clitoridectomy, I helped African women to develop a campaign geared toward educating their governments and their people on the brutality of the procedure.
bilby commented on the word clitoridectomy
"In America fifty years ago, doctors deduced masturbatory habits from the coloration and confirmation of the vulva, and treated the mania, which was of their own invention, by clitoridectomy on a massive scale."
- 'Lady Love Your Cunt', Germaine Greer in Suck, 1971.
April 6, 2008