What's the difference between circumcision and uncircumcision?
Circumcision
Definition:
(n.) The act of cutting off the prepuce or foreskin of males, or the internal labia of females.
(n.) The Jews, as a circumcised people.
(n.) Rejection of the sins of the flesh; spiritual purification, and acceptance of the Christian faith.
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).
Uncircumcision
Definition:
(n.) The absence or want of circumcision.
(n.) People not circumcised; the Gentiles.
Example Sentences:
(1) To me, now, President Jacob Zuma is a boy because he is an uncircumcised Zulu."
(2) Cofactors for heterosexual transmission are vaginal intercourse, anal intercourse, presence of AIDS symptomatic disease, STDs (especially genital ulcers),and an uncircumcised penis.
(3) Both balanitis (6% vs 3%) and irritation (4% vs 1%) were more frequent among the uncircumcised children, but the difference was not statistically significant.
(4) In the analysis, she attained a gradual reorganization of adaptive functions which allowed identification with the father through her work, reconciliation with the rivalrous siblings, and enjoyment of her female sexuality in heterosexual intercourse with the use of a fetishistic requirement that the man be uncircumcised.
(5) The frequencies of urinary tract infection (P less than .0001) and bacteremia (P less than .0002) were significantly higher in the uncircumcised boys.
(6) All patients with non-syphilitic spirochaetal infection were uncircumcised.
(7) EQ (erythroplasia of Queyrat) manifests itself by single or multiple asymptomatic papules or plaques on the glans penis, or periurethrally, predominantly in uncircumcised men, age range from twenty to eighty years of age.
(8) All of the cases were uncircumcised, vs 32% of controls.
(9) A form-fitting glans condom has been developed for use in small uncircumcised males with neurogenic bladders to avoid the problems inherent with diapers.
(10) In contrast, cultures from the coronal sulcus detected most of the colonized uncircumcised men (49 of 59; 83%).
(11) These results support the recommendation that good hygiene can offer many of the advantages of circumcision and highlight the need for clear, early instructions on hygiene to uncircumcised patients.
(12) Because the majority of these boys have been uncircumcised, circumcision seems advisable.
(13) 2 groups of full-term infants (14 uncircumcised males, 15 females), equally distributed along several physical and demographic variables, served as subjects.
(14) Caregivers from two nursing homes were asked their opinions about and experiences with caring for uncircumcised males.
(15) The majority of the lesions occurred on the shaft of the penis and on the foreskin of uncircumcised men.
(16) These were derived from the records of a country-wide biopsy service over the 5-year period 1964-68.Where circumcision is practised the incidence of this tumour is very low.However, the geographical variation also showed marked differences in the uncircumcised, regardless of tribal antecedents and sometimes over quite small distances.It is suggested, therefore, that in Uganda other aetiological factors apart from circumcision are operative and that these factors vary with geographical location rather than with tribal affiliation.
(17) Uncircumcised formula-fed male infants with reflux seemed to be at special risk for infection.
(18) Uncircumcised boys had significantly higher total colony counts (p less than 0.003) at all ages except 12 months.
(19) A significantly greater proportion of Negroes were uncircumcised, possibly explaining the racial difference.
(20) Escherichia coli was present significantly more often (p less than 0.01) in the urethras of uncircumcised boys at 2 weeks, 2 months, 4 months, and 6 months.