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clitoris

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clitoris /clit·o·ris/ (klit´ah-ris) the small, elongated, erectile body in the female, situated at the anterior angle of the rima pudendi and homologous with the penis in the male.
clit·o·ris (kltr-s, kltr-)
n. pl. cli·to·ri·des (kl-tôr-dz)
A small erectile body situated at the anterior portion of the vulva and projecting between the branched extremities of the labia minora forming its prepuce and frenulum.

clitoris
the small, elongated, erectile body in the female; it occupies the clitoral fossa in the ventral commissure of the vulva where it is attached to the ischial arch by two crura. It is homologous with the penis in the male.

enlarged clitoris
as seen in masculinized patients.

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When a girl (baby, toddler, preteen, teen) is mutilated, her clitoris and labia are excised with an unsterile tool--a piece of broken glass, a tin-can lid, a sharpened bone.
In addition, I refer to the belief that sexual excesses (legible on the body in, for example, the oversized clitoris of the lesbian and the black woman or the large penis of the black male rapist) revealed a propensity for violent activities and social degeneracy.
 
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