may·hem
n 1 : willful and permanent deprivation of a bodily member resulting in impairment of a person's fighting ability and constituting a grave felony under English common law 2 : willful and permanent crippling, mutilation, or disfiguring of any part of the body constituting a grave felony under modern statutes and in some jurisdictions requiring a specific intent as distinguished from general malice <physicians, accused … of sterilizing her through trickery, were ordered held for trial on charges of conspiracy to commit -Associated Press> .
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