mutilation
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thumb|Forensic pathology|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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- violence
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- Commons category
- Mutilation
- topic's main category
- Category:Mutilation
- different from
- surgical operation
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Human rights
- facet of
- bodily integrity
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thumb|Forensic pathology|Police surgeon's drawing showing the mutilated body of [[Catherine Eddowes, Jack the Ripper's fourth canonical victim, as discovered on September 30, 1888]]
Mutilation or maiming (from the ) is severe damage to the body that has a subsequent harmful effect on an individual's quality of life.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “mutilation” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.