metzizah b'peh
Meanings
noun
- A practice performed during a brit milah in which a mohel orally draws blood away from a male baby's circumcision wound.
Word forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Hebrew מְצִיצָה בְּפֶה (metsitsah b'peh, literally “oral suction”).
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