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Free sign upThe phrase "avoid mutilation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is advising against causing severe damage or injury, either literally or metaphorically.
Example: "In order to preserve the integrity of the artwork, it is essential to avoid mutilation during the restoration process."
Alternatives: "prevent damage" or "steer clear of harm".
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However, recent reports suggest that subtotal resection is acceptable, to avoid mutilation.
In elderly women, primary hormonal treatment is considered the most appropriate option to avoid mutilation resulting from radical surgery.
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Dr Joanna Swabe, public affairs director for animal lobby group Humane Society International, said proper environmental enrichment, good stockmanship and simply providing straw would all help avoid mutilations.
Rosen said that she had once incanted this poem in Kenya, at a home that Ensler helped establish for girls who had fled their villages in order to avoid genital mutilation.
Around the world, this can mean something as basic as choosing a spouse or avoiding genital mutilation in the name of tradition.
They were envisaged as palliative, as a possible means of extending "cautery" beyond the scalpel's reach, or perhaps as avoiding surgical "mutilation".
She has already fled her village in northern Sierra Leone to avoid female genital mutilation (FGM) and expects to go on the run again to avoid being cut.
Canada wanted the words "in conformity with human rights and fundamental freedoms" linked to health care to avoid condoning practices like female genital mutilation.
Marano sees an epidemic of psychological breakdown on college campuses: "The middle of the night may find a SWAT team of counselors calming down a dorm wing after having crisis-managed an acute manic episode or yet another incident of self-mutilation". Overparented students who avoid or survive college meltdowns are still impaired, Marano argues.
The pair had fled Ivory Coast, west Africa, to avoid Oumoh being subjected to female genital mutilation by her father's family.
This lack of pain is partially brought to prominence in this psychoanalytic context by Freud's 'pleasure principle' which holds that, subconsciously, humans always seek to experience pleasure and avoid pain and so problematizes actions of self-mutilation.
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