What is another word for circumcision?

Pronunciation: [sˈɜːkəmsˌɪʒən] (IPA)

Circumcision is a term used to describe a common surgical procedure involving the removal of the foreskin. However, there are several other terms used to describe this procedure, including prepucectomy, foreskin removal, foreskinectomy, and genital cutting. Other terms commonly used in the medical field for this procedure include male genital mutilation and male genital cutting. While these terms are not interchangeable, they all refer to the same basic procedure. It is important to note that circumcision is a personal decision that should be made after careful consideration of medical, cultural, and religious factors.

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Usage examples for Circumcision

Among the regulations of purity is reckoned the custom of circumcision, which was practised among the Israelites, and retained by the law.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker
By waiting a year, indeed, the same enthusiast, supposing him there, could hear everything again, for Herr Dremmel's sermons numbered twenty-six and were planned to begin on January 1st with the circumcision, and leaping along through the fortnights of the year ended handsomely and irregularly with an extra one at Christmas.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
His chief concern was whatever was connected with circumcision.
"Stories and Pictures"
Isaac Loeb Peretz

Famous quotes with Circumcision

  • Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision.
    John Money
  • According to Cemil Cicek these people do not have problems regarding language, culture or faith, all is about the circumcision. If that is really the problem and if you are so interested we can appoint you as the "government circumciser" and send you to Kandil (PKK HQ in northern Iraq) to solve it. (On the quote of Cemil Cicek, speaker for AKP: "Some of those PKK terrorists without circumcision should tell you a lot about the issue")
    Selahattin Demirtas
  • Just as divorce according to the Saviour's word was not permitted from the beginning, but on account of the hardness of our heart was a concession of Moses to the human race, so too the eating of flesh was unknown until the deluge. But after the deluge, like the quails given in the desert to the murmuring people, the poison of flesh-meat was offered to our teeth. … At the beginning of the human race we neither ate flesh, nor gave bills of divorce, nor suffered circumcision for a sign. Thus we reached the deluge. But after the deluge, together with the giving of the law which no one could fulfil, flesh was given for food, and divorce was allowed to hard-hearted men, and the knife of circumcision was applied, as though the hand of God had fashioned us with something superfluous. But once Christ has come in the end of time, and Omega passed into Alpha and turned the end into the beginning, we are no longer allowed divorce, nor are we circumcised, nor do we eat flesh.
    Jerome
  • Many people think that female circumcision only started with the advent of Islam.Mohammad the Prophet tried to oppose this custom since he considered it harmful to the sexual health of the woman.
    Nawal El Saadawi

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