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female genital mutilationMain Entry: female genital mutilation Function: noun Date: 1979 : a procedure performed especially as a cultural rite that typically includes the total or partial excision of the female external genitalia and especially the clitoris and labia minora and that is now outlawed in many nations including the United States —abbreviation FGM —called also female circumcision — compare infibulation
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