English Dictionary

female circumcision

noun

(medicine, sciences) The removal of the clitoral hood, the female prepuce cognate to the foreskin removed in the male equivalent.

Female circumcision is a controversial practice that involves the removal of the external female genitalia.

意味（1）

(medicine, sciences) 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

意味（2）

(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.