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female circumcision
noun(female genital mutilation)
a procedure performed especially as a cultural rite that typically includes the total or partial excision of the female external genitalia and especially the clitoris and labia minora and that is now outlawed in many nations including the U.S. —abbreviation FGM—called also female circumcision

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