FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION


Meaning of FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Date: 1979

: clitoridectomy especially as a cultural rite sometimes with removal of the labia that is now outlawed in many nations including the U.S. — abbreviation FGM ; called also female circumcision — compare infibulation

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