What does Clit stand for?

Gichuhi said her mother had been killed by members of the Mungiki sect for refusing to have her clitoris cut off, and she also feared death in the crude operation.

Gichuhi said her mother had been killed by members of the Mungiki sect for refusing to have her clitoris cut off, and she also feared death in the crude operation.

The World Health Organization defines FGM in 2007 as the range of procedures that involve the 'partial or complete removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs whether for cultural or any other non-therapeutic reason: There are four types of FGM: * Type I, or clitoridectomy, involves partial or total removal of the clitoris, sometimes with removal of the prepuce (or clitoral hood) * Type II is defined as partial or total removal of the clitoris and labia minora with or without excision of the labia majora * The most severe Type III involves 'infibulation; where the clitoris and labia minora are completely removed and the vaginal opening is stitched or narrowed leaving only a small opening (1 cm to 2cm) for the passage of urine and menstrual blood.

So, for instance, there's much more on the clitoris (the old edition had only four sentences).

It produces responses in both the clitoris and Skene's glands, found in the upper wall of the vagina.

Dr Tim Spector, of St Thomas's Hospital, said: "Many other explanations arepossible, such as the actual size of the clitoris.

Female circumcision, the focus of one of Tostan's earliest and most enduring campaigns, involves the removal of a girl's clitoris and sometimes other parts of the genitalia.

The procedure, which many refer to as female genital mutilation, usually involves the removal of the clitoris and other parts of female genitalia.