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  2. Female genital mutilation - Wikipedia

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    From 1966 until 1989, he performed "love surgery" by cutting women's pubococcygeus muscle, repositioning the vagina and urethra, and removing the clitoral hood, thereby making their genital area more appropriate, in his view, for intercourse in the missionary position. [183] "

  3. Viral video uses clay to show what happens to a woman's ... - AOL

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    Jenny Recotta, a labor and delivery nurse, shares viral video of what happens to a woman's cervix during birth using clay and her pottery wheel. Jenny Recotta, a labor and delivery nurse, shares ...

  4. Dilation and curettage - Wikipedia

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    Dilation (or dilatation) and curettage (D&C) refers to the dilation (widening or opening) of the cervix and surgical removal of sections and/or layers of the lining of the uterus and or contents of the uterus such as an unwanted fetus (early abortion before 13 weeks), remains of a non-viable fetus, retained placenta after birth or abortion as well as any abnormal tissue which may be in the ...

  5. Genital modification and mutilation - Wikipedia

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    Genital modifications are forms of body modifications applied to the human sexual organs. [1] When there's cutting involved, genital cutting or surgery can be used. [1] The term genital enhancement seem to be generally used for genital modifications that modify the external aspect, the way the patient wants it. [1]

  6. Cervix - Wikipedia

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    The cervix (pl.: cervices) or cervix uteri is a dynamic fibromuscular sexual organ of the female reproductive system that connects the vagina with the uterine cavity. [1] The human female cervix has been documented anatomically since at least the time of Hippocrates, over 2,000 years ago.

  7. Intact dilation and extraction - Wikipedia

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    The surgery is preceded by cervical preparation, which may take several days. Osmotic dilators, natural or synthetic rods that absorb moisture from the cervix, are placed in the cervix and mechanically dilate the cervix over the course of hours to days. Misoprostol can be used to soften the cervix further.

  8. Cervical dilation - Wikipedia

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    Cervical dilation can be performed by temporarily stretching the cervix with a series of (cervical) dilators of increasing diameter. [11] Misoprostol prior to hysteroscopy for cervical dilation appears to facilitate an easier and uncomplicated procedure only in premenopausal women. [12]

  9. Female reproductive system - Wikipedia

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    This begins the period of gestation and the embryo will continue to develop until full-term. When the fetus has developed enough to survive outside the uterus, the cervix dilates, and contractions of the uterus propel it through the birth canal (the vagina), where it becomes a newborn.