English-Portuguese translations for circumcision

• circuncisão
  Quase 100% das mulheres são sujeitas a circuncisão. Nearly 100% female circumcision is practised.
  A circuncisão feminina continua a ser praticada, apesar dos protestos do público mundial. Despite the protests of the world's public, female circumcision is still practised.
  Uma atrocidade em particular, praticada em muitas regiões do mundo, é a circuncisão feminina das jovens. A particular atrocity practised in many areas of the world is the circumcision of young women.

Definition of circumcision

• The surgical removal of the foreskin of the penis
• The surgical removal of the clitoris; clitoridectomy, usually referred to as female genital mutilation

Related words

• female circumcision
• male circumcision
• Feast of the Circumcision of Christ