infibulation

• The former, also known as infibulation, involves the total removal of all external sex organs before the vagina is sewn up, leaving a small opening for the passing of menstrual blood, while the Sunna type is less extensive. —  IRIN
• Where there is essentially one form of male circumcision, there are at least three recognized female types: Sunna, clitoridectomy, and infibulation, the last being the most extreme. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• Continence, celibacy, infibulation, and even castration were the conditions looked upon by many of these men as the only means of living a life on earth that would grant them an eternal life in the next. —  History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
• For such purposes as the foregoing infibulation offered a more humane method than castration. —  Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
• Buffon and Brown mention infibulation in Abyssinia, the parts being separated by a bistoury at the time of marriage. —  Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

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