(v. t.) To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform.
(n.) Disfigurement; deformity.
Example Sentences:
(1) More specifically, disfigurement seldom was mentioned as a reason for not returning to work and for not participating in social activities with work mates, friends, relatives, and society in general.
(2) These injuries, however, have a profound potential for causing lifelong disability and disfigurement and should be addressed as soon as the patient's condition stabilizes.
(3) Trapped on Lampedusa, Fanus tried to burn and disfigure her fingerprints.
(4) One mode involves focal overgrowth of membrane bones, producing multiple hyperostoses which result in progressive craniofacial disfigurement and asymmetry.
(5) Total amputation of the penis is a disfiguring, and functionally and psychologically disabling injury.
(6) The technique allows the removal of these cavities without disfigurement of the head after the brain has been removed.
(7) By mandatory seat belt usage laws a significant reduction in deaths, disfiguring injuries, and hospital bed-days would be realized.
(8) Superiority of this treatment is attributed to the simplicity of its application and lack of disfigurement and scarring.
(9) The advantage of this flap is the donor scar which is less disfiguring than flaps from the anterior chest usually chosen in such cases.
(10) Surface measurements of the ear are needed to assess damage in patients with disfigurement or defects of the ears and face.
(11) Those who cope poorly have significantly lower self-esteem, which suggests that response to disfiguring diseases is affected by basic ego strength.
(12) This may obviate the more serious pathologic changes of advanced disease, especially the disfigurement of chronic and late filariasis.
(13) The delay in diagnosis results not only in unique somatic disfigurement but is also associated with significant mental and emotional dysfunction.
(14) Details are given about specific diagnoses, disability, disfigurement, discomfort, and the relationship of skin change to environmental and occupational exposure.
(15) Principally, there was the legal conflict with actor James Woods, who in 1988 accused her of exotic harassments including leaving a disfigured doll outside his home in Beverly Hills.
(16) In addition, disfiguration of donor sites is eliminated.
(17) Surgery of these benign lesions can at times be disfiguring, especially when the lips, muscles, or the maxilla and mandible are involved.
(18) Countless veterans survived the war but paid the price by leaving it maimed, mutilated and disfigured.
(19) There was no statistically significant association between depression and burn size or disfigurement.
(20) Channel 4's alternative Christmas message, delivered by former model and presenter Katie Piper who was disfigured in a sulphuric acid attack, attracted 500,000 viewers.