(v. t.) To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.
(v. t.) To purify spiritually.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lack of circumcision, past history of GUD and urethritis were significantly associated with HIV seroconversion.
(2) One hundred male infants were studied at the Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Ontario, to determine the incidence and complications of routine circumcision.
(3) The best treatment would appear to be prevention of the complication by adequate instruction to personnel doing routine circumcisions.
(4) Circumcision is the only surgical procedure, excluding cord-clamping and cutting, which is routinely performed on normal, healthy newborn infants, usually during the first two or three days of life.
(5) In a controlled series of 167 circumcised patients, receiving optimal ante-natal and intra-partum care in hospital, we observed only short-term complications at delivery, with no long-term effects on the mother or the baby.
(6) Up to 23,000 girls under the age of 15 are thought to be at risk of FGM, which is also known as female circumcision or female genital cutting.
(7) "What it means to be a 'proper' man and the fact that it has been reduced to the practice of circumcision is detrimental not only to the young men who go through the process but to society as a whole."
(8) Parents who take their daughters abroad to be circumcised could be sentenced to 14 years in prison, if proposed legislation becomes law.
(9) Therapeutical circumcision (posthectomy) in nine patients presenting with diffuse penile warts.
(10) We circumcise all our children, they say it’s good for our girls,” said Naga Shawky, a 40-year-old housewife, as she walked along streets near Sohair’s home.
(11) The results indicate a common core of physical but diverse cultural reasons for circumcision and justify ready access to circumcision from the military surgeon.
(12) Of 140 boys coming to day-case elective circumcision between the ages of 3 months and 14 years (mean 4.3 years), the commonest cause was a congenital phimosis (42.8%).
(13) A high proportion (56.4%) claimed to have been circumcised by examination revealed that 24.5% had no clinical evidence of circumcision.
(14) It feels like rape every time.” Taina Bien Aime, director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and a long-time anti-FGM campaigner, says comparisons between male and female circumcision are unhelpful.
(15) Despite the vogue for conservatism, circumcision still has an important part to play in the management of troublesome foreskins in children.
(16) Circumcision practices for 409 African ethnic groups were corresponded with national estimates of HIV infection levels.
(17) A trial of videotaped "informed consent" counseling was undertaken to determine whether such counseling could affect the parental choice about circumcision.
(18) The procedure is simple, safe and much less traumatizing than the conventional circumcision.
(19) Annually thousands of teenage boys from the Xhosa tribe embark on a secretive rite of passage in Eastern Cape province, spending up to a month in seclusion where they study, undergo circumcision by a traditional surgeon, and apply white clay to their bodies.
(20) The circumcised men had significantly fewer symptoms (P = 0-0058).
Labia
Definition:
(n. pl.) See Labium.
(pl. ) of Labium
Example Sentences:
(1) The labia minora as a pedicle graft avoids the problems encountered by conventional methods.
(2) The findings corroborated again the rare occurrence of meissner's endings in the labia minora in woman.
(3) FGM is a horrendous practice; the most severe form involves cutting off a girl's clitoris and labia and suturing the remaining tissue together, leaving a small hole for the passage of urine and menstrual blood.
(4) The oedema of the Scrotum, or the swelling of the Labia majora, could be the first sign of an intraabdominal inflammation.
(5) If you have a type 3 FGM then the clitoris and labia are sliced off.
(6) In labia majora skin, irritant dermatitis developed in 50% of the women as determined by visual scoring; however, because of the pigmentation, visual scoring readings were less reliable in labia majora skin.
(7) The majority of patients with pseudo-condyloma were symptomless but with harbor roe-like warty papulae distributed symmetrically on both labia minora.
(8) The flaps are raised bilaterally in the groin crease just lateral to the labia majora and then are transposed toward the midline and sutured together to form a skin-lined cul-de-sac which opens at the introitus.
(9) The sensory component of the iloinguinal nerve normally courses through the inguinal canal and supplies the upper thigh, pubis, inguinal crease, and the anterior and lateral aspect of the scrotum or labia majora.
(10) The next category contains entities that have an abnormal appearance: ambiguous genitalia, periurethral cysts of the newborn, hymenal variants, and agglutination of the labia and vulva.
(11) In each case the diagnosis was made because of characteristic pain localized to the medial groin, mons, labia majora, and inner thigh.
(12) Then, they review the different extensive procedures used to ensure this result: small bowel graft, omentopexy to reinforce the suture lines, fibroadipose tissue from the labia majora (Martius' operation).
(13) When Norrköpings Tidningar reported that every single girl in a school class of 30 had turned out to be circumcised – with 28 of them having their clitorises and labia cut away and their vaginas sewn almost shut – it was picked up by the media across the world, including by UK broadsheets.
(14) Fourteen women (13.7%) had S. aureus in one or more samples: 10.7% labia, 3.9% introitus and 3.9% vaginal.
(15) Four had an ominous black spot on the scrotum or posterior labia.
(16) The phallic skin was used to create the labia minora and the anterior vaginal wall.
(17) The microbial flora of the labia majora is characterized by a high density of microorganisms, as is typical for occluded areas of the body, by the presence of organisms common for intertriginous skin such as gram-negative rods, and by the carriage of organisms unique for the vulva and probably related to urethral and vaginal flora such as the nonpathogenic neisseria, lactobacilli, and Gardnerella vaginalis.
(18) A personal case was recently studied by the authors in some detail: A 51-year-old individual reared as a female with primary amenorrhea, short stature, subnormal intelligence, male type habitus, hirsutism, moderate breast development, ambiguous external genitalia with a 5 x 2 cm phallus, labia majora with scrotal type skin, and a urogenital sinus.
(19) I find myself wondering how far I should go to say that FGM is the slicing off on a conscious young girl with no anaesthetic of her clitoris and labia... “This is a quibble about a couple of stitches and it is a complete distraction.” Mr Justice Sweeney, in summing up to the jury on Wednesday, said everyone accepted Dharmasena had saved the life of the woman’s baby in an emergency delivery on 24 November, 2012.
(20) Clinically, multiple papules or solitary papules or plaques were situated on the labia majora or adjacent skin.