Definitions
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- noun surgery The surgical procedure to remove all or part of the
clitoris ;female circumcision
Etymologies
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Examples
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As to the comments on women and clitorectomy, that is practiced in some African societies.
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The first word I thought of was "clitorectomy". said Miss Cellania on April 2, 2008 2:37 PM.
YesButNoButYes: What's The Most Frightening Word in the English Language? 2008
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I am neither female, nor African ... but still I think maybe the people who agitate (understandably) against this practice would get further if instead of calling it "circumcision" (which is most definitely is not), they called it "clitoridectomy" (or at least it's country cousin, "clitorectomy").
Mrs Goundo's Daughter aka TBTAM 2009
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I learned early in my career that if I was delivering a women who had had a previous clitorectomy, I needed to cut a good episiotomy, even if she had had prior children, because the scarred upper portion of her genital tract would massively tear at delivery.
Ending Genital Mutilation, Village by Village aka TBTAM 2009
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The natural allies to young women in societies practicing clitorectomy are actually young men who want their partners to experience sexual pleasure.
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The climax is a clitorectomy, executed with a pair of scissors, right in the audience's face.
Most Hated Director at Cannes: Lars Von Trier as Antichrist or Shaman? 2010
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The climax is a clitorectomy, executed with a pair of scissors, right in the audience's face.
Karin Badt: Most Hated Director at Cannes: Lars Von Trier as Antichrist or Shaman? 2010
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The climax is a clitorectomy, executed with a pair of scissors, right in the audience's face.
Karin Badt: Most Hated Director at Cannes: Lars Von Trier as Antichrist or Shaman? 2009
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Due for release later this month, the film shocks with a scene of deteriorating madwoman Charlotte Gainsbourg (She) performing a clitorectomy on herself -- after bashing, then jacking off, her semi-conscious husband Willem Dafoe (He) who spews semen mixed with blood.
Brad Balfour: Defiant Danish Director Lars von Trier Tackles Antichrist 2009
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It is so relentlessly "sick", its unleashed cruelty so sadistic (the climax is a graphic clitorectomy) that the audience at the premiere booed and hissed.
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