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Clitoris--Surgery > Female circumcision
Civilization > Manners and customs > Body marking > Female circumcision
Auxiliary sciences of history > Civilization > Manners and customs > Body marking > Female circumcision
Anthropology > Ethnology > Manners and customs > Body marking > Female circumcision
... > Animals > Chordata > Vertebrates > Mammals > Primates > Hominids > Human beings > Ethnology > Manners and customs > Body marking > Female circumcision
... > Life (Biology) > Organisms > Animals > Chordata > Vertebrates > Mammals > Primates > Hominids > Human beings > Ethnology > Manners and customs > Body marking > Female circumcision
Medicine, Preventive > Hygiene > Beauty, Personal > Body marking > Female circumcision
Rites and ceremonies > Initiation rites > Female circumcision
Ritualism > Rites and ceremonies > Initiation rites > Female circumcision

Preferred term

GN484Female circumcision  

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Entry terms

  • Circumcision, Female
  • Clitoridotomy
  • Female genital cutting
  • Female genital modification
  • Female genital mutilation
  • FGC (Female genital cutting)
  • FGM (Female genital mutilation)
  • Genital cutting, Female
  • Genital mutilation, Female
  • Mutilation, Female genital

Note

  • Here are entered works on traditional practices that involve surgery of the external female genital organs and that may vary in extent from simple cutting of the clitoral prepuce to total excision of the clitoris and parts of the labia.

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  • GN484

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/lcsh/sh93002781

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