Act of physical injury that degrades the appearance or function of any living body
Police surgeon's drawing showing the mutilated body of Catherine Eddowes, Jack the Ripper's fourth canonical victim, as discovered on September 30, 1888.
Look up mutilation or maim in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Mutilation or maiming (from the Latin: mutilus) is severe damage to the body that has a subsequent utterly ruinous effect on an individual's quality of life.[1]
In the modern era, the term has an overwhelmingly negative connotation,[1][2] referring to alterations that render something inferior, dysfunctional, imperfect, or ugly.[3][4]
^ abPitts, Victoria (2003). In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 25. ISBN 9781403979438.
^Inckle, Kay (2007). Writing on the Body? Thinking Through Gendered Embodiment and Marked Flesh. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. Preface: X, 20. ISBN 9781443808729.
^Staff (October 7, 2022). "Definition of Mutilate". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved October 27, 2022.
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