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Initialism: '''F'''emale '''G'''enital '''C'''utting.

Sometimes used as a [[euphemism]] in discussions and papers in order to gloss over the fact that this is a violent, mutilating operation. However, there are also such "mild" forms of female genital cutting, which only involve scratching or incising the [[skin]], that one can actually speak of cutting rather than mutilation here.

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* [[Circumcision]]
* [[FGM]]
* [[HGM]]
* [[IGM]]
* [[Khafz]]
* [[MGM]]

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