Dhabihah

Dhabīḥah (or Zabiha, Arabic: ذَبِيْحَة‎ ḏabīḥah, "slaughter(noun)") is, in Islamic law, the prescribed method of ritual slaughter of all animals excluding camels, locusts, fish and most sea-life. This method of slaughtering animals consists of a swift, deep incision with a sharp knife on the throat, cutting the jugular veins and carotid arteries of both sides but leaving the spinal cord, and thus the capacity to feel pain until death, intact.