circumciser
Ritual cutting practitioner
A circumciser is a person who performs circumcisions—the surgical removal of the foreskin from the penis.
The term applies to medical professionals performing the procedure in clinical settings and to religious practitioners, particularly the mohel in Jewish tradition, who conducts ritual circumcision on infant boys.
Precise surgical knife
- incisionControlled cut into tissue
- sterileFree from microorganisms
- anesthesiaInduced loss of feeling
- sutureMedical wound closure
clamp · foreskin · prepuce · gloves · antiseptic · hemostat · cautery · ligature
Ritual circumcision practitioner
- surgeonPhysician who operates
- urologistUrinary system physician
- pediatricianPhysician for children
- physicianLicensed medical doctor
clinician · specialist · provider · operator · trained · certified · experienced · traditional
Formal event marking occasions
- covenantBinding formal pledge
- initiationFormal admission ceremony
- blessingPrayer seeking divine favor
- sacramentSacred ritual conveying grace
purification · consecration · naming · celebration · religious · spiritual · sacred · symbolic
Formal argument on issues
- ethicsStudy of right conduct
- consentVoluntary agreement given
- infantVery young child
- activismDirect effort for reform
legal · harm · trauma · complications · ban · criminalization · medicalization · FGM
scalpel
Precise surgical knife
- incisionControlled cut into tissue
- sterileFree from microorganisms
- anesthesiaInduced loss of feeling
suture · clamp · foreskin · prepuce · gloves · antiseptic · hemostat · cautery · ligature · bandage
mohel
Ritual circumcision practitioner
- surgeonPhysician who operates
- urologistUrinary system physician
- pediatricianPhysician for children
physician · clinician · specialist · provider · operator · trained · certified · experienced · traditional · religious
ceremony
Formal event marking occasions
- covenantBinding formal pledge
- initiationFormal admission ceremony
- blessingPrayer seeking divine favor
sacrament · purification · consecration · naming · celebration · religious · spiritual · sacred · symbolic · communal
debate
Formal argument on issues
activism · legal · harm · trauma · complications · ban · criminalization · medicalization · FGM · bioethics
heritage
Inherited cultural legacy
practice · belief · lineage · ethnicity · tribal · indigenous · generational · elder · identity · community
- Jewish Rolescantor, rebbe, shamash, shammes, rosh yeshiva
- Rabbinicsrabbi, rebbe, dayan, rosh yeshiva, Torah scholar
- ritual circumcision
- female circumcisionCutting of female genitalia
- circumcision ceremonyRitual surgical removal of foreskin
- infant circumcisionSurgical removal of newborn's foreskin
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