Concept cluster: Anatomy > Circumcision
adj
(informal) Synonym of anticircumcision
n
(surgery) The act of removing the testicles.
v
(informal) To circumcise.
n
A circumcised person.
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One who is circumcised.
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The surgical removal of the foreskin of the penis.
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(very rare) The advocacy or practice of circumcision.
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A person who performs circumcisions, especially as a profession.
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One who carries out circumcision.
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Alternative spelling of circumcisor [One who carries out circumcision.]
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A paraphilia in which sexual arousal is derived from the act of circumcision.
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(by extension, derogatory) An advocate of routine male circumcision.
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(Christianity) penile mutilation, emasculation (used as a polemical term in Paul's epistles)
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The removal of the scrotum or the tail of male livestock by cutting off the blood supply with an elastic ring.
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(medicine) The removal of the penis, testicles, and scrotum of (a male person or animal).
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A form of foreskin restoration to reverse circumcision, historically practised among some Jews in Hellenistic and Roman societies.
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(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.
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Female genital mutilation.
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Any mutilation of the female genitals done for non-medical reasons, such as the infliction of abrasion, burns (chemical or cauterizing), or cuts or slits, or amputation or piercing.
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(informal, rare) Abbreviation of female circumcision. [(medicine, sciences) The removal of the clitoral hood, the female prepuce cognate to the foreskin removed in the male equivalent.]
v
To remove the foreskin.
n
the cutting of genitals of either gender
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The complete amputation or partial cutting of the external genitalia of either gender; abbreviated GM.
v
(derogatory) To circumcise
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Any of several sacred or holy foreskins (Latin sānctum praepūtium) allegedly from the circumcision of the baby Jesus on the eighth day of his life.
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A specialized surgical knife used by the mohel in the Jewish circumcision ritual of Brit Milah for infant males. It must have certain characteristics, per Jewish Law, including that it may not stop the flow of blood (unlike the constricting devices commonly used by a surgeon or Urologist).
n
The development of an acquired hypospadias, usually as a result of long use of a catheter.
v
(transitive) To perform a lobotomy upon.
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An operation involving the surgical removal of all or most of the foreskin (prepuce) and frenulum of the male genitalia.
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circumcision (seen as mutilation)
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The complete amputation or partial cutting of the external male genitalia, including circumcision, abbreviated as MGM.
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Initialism of male genital cutting. [circumcision (seen as mutilation)]
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(neologism) Surgical removal of genitals (and sometimes nipples) as a form of body modification; a person who has undergone this surgery is a nullo.
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A medical condition where the foreskin becomes trapped behind the glans.
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the process, following the cutting of foreskin flesh, by which the flesh is pulled back to expose the glans (head) of the penis. It precedes the circumcision which removes the remnants of flesh
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in Rabbinic Judaism a supplementary procedure in the bris following the milah (amputation of the akroposthion) where the preputial epithelium of the foreskin is separated from the glans of the penis, a precursor to circumcision where that separated skin is also amputated
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infibulation (female circumcision)
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(medicine) A contraction of the foreskin (either as a stage of development or a pathological condition), which prevents it from being retracted.
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(medicine) circumcision.
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surgical reconstruction of the foreskin
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(anatomy) The foreskin, or retractable fold of tissue covering the glans penis.
adj
(informal) Supportive of male infant circumcision.
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A supporter of male infant circumcision.
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A supporter of male infant circumcision.
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Obsolete form of prepuce. [(anatomy) The foreskin, or retractable fold of tissue covering the glans penis.]
adj
(informal) Circumcised.
v
To partially circumcise.
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Any of several forms of incision of the foreskin practised as an initiation ceremony in parts of Polynesia and the Philippines.

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