clitoridectomy
- noun
- /ˌklɪtəˈrɪdɛk tə mi/
- Offensive
:
clitoridectomía
- IT'S ABOUT MY CLITORIDECTOMY.
Examples
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Moreover, procedures like clitoridectomy and "normal ovariotomy," even in the days of their greatest acceptance, were performed on a small minority of American women.
Academic text (1994) -
At age twelve, clitoridectomy and infibulation—the sewing closed of the vaginal opening—will be performed on these girls.
Fiction book (1994) -
The university, with a stiff-jawed lack of comment, had not chosen him, the "inside candidate," in the national search; it hired a younger woman working on sub-Saharan clitoridectomy instead.
Fiction book (2001) -
Called monenkim, the "circumcised child," since the seclusion begins with a clitoridectomy, she remains there for as long as her parents can afford it, usually about one year.
Academic text (1998) -
MY CLITORIDECTOMY...
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The set of related social controls on women's sexuality often begins with clitoridectomy and extends to the two to three years during which a nursing mother must refrain from sex in order to avoid contaminating the baby's food.
Academic text (1999) -
I ENTER CHELA, MY SECOND AGE-GRADE THIS FEBRUARY, THEN EVEN THE EMIR'S DAUGHTER MAY HAVE SEX AND MARRY AFTER MY CLITORIDECTOMY.
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We have a great deal of difficulty these days staying out of one another's way: witness British confoundment in the Rushdie affair, witness American court cases about child betrothal, animal sacrifice, municipal creches, or ritual clitoridectomy.
Academic text (1999) -
Other doctors (including Sayre himself) revived the mutilating procedure of clitoridectomy, with the clitoris subjected to a variety of surgeries, manipulations, and chemical preparations.
Academic text (1994) -
Many girls experience clitoridectomy as a cultural practice that affects their health and wellbeing.
Synonyms
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9.9
Removal of any of the outer sexual parts of a girl or woman for cultural and religious reasons
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Clitoridectomy starts with clitoris, from a Greek word meaning 'little hill', and ends with -ectomy, a medical ending meaning 'cutting out' that you see in appendectomy. So a clitoridectomy is the surgical 'cutting out' or removal of the clitoris.