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Infibulation   Listen
noun
Infibulation  n.  
1.
The act of clasping, or fastening, as with a buckle or padlock.
2.
The act of attaching a ring, clasp, or frame, to the genital organs in such a manner as to prevent copulation.






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"Infibulation" Quotes from Famous Books



... sometimes break their rings and fail to place them back—"et cujus refibulavit turgidum faber peruem." Heinsius considers Agamemnon cautious when he left Demodocus near Clytemnestra, as he remarks that Demodocus was infibulated. For such purposes as the foregoing infibulation offered a more humane method ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould



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