Mutilation

Police surgeon's drawing showing the mutilated body of Catherine Eddowes, Jack the Ripper's fourth canonical victim, as discovered on September 30, 1888
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Mutilation or maiming (from the Latin: mutilus) is severe damage to the body that has a subsequent harmful 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]

  1. ^ a b Pitts, Victoria (2003). In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 25. ISBN 9781403979438.
  2. ^ Inckle, Kay (2007). Writing on the Body? Thinking Through Gendered Embodiment and Marked Flesh. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. Preface: X, 20. ISBN 9781443808729.
  3. ^ Staff (October 7, 2022). "Definition of Mutilate". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved October 27, 2022.
  4. ^ Staff (November 14, 2022). "Mutilation: Definition". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved November 14, 2022.