Definition of "circumcision"

circumcision

noun
countable and uncountable, plural circumcisions
1. The surgical removal of the foreskin of the penis.
  Quotations
  So ſay I , did the Covenant of circumciſion, in that he that was circumciſed was bound to keep the whole Law Gal 5. 3.
  1697, Benjamin Keach, A Counter-Antidote to Purge Out the Effects of a Late Counterfeit‎, page 7
2. The surgical removal of the clitoral hood of the clitoris; female circumcision.
3. (often proscribed) The surgical removal of the clitoris; clitoridectomy, usually referred to as female genital mutilation.