The word 'disfiguration' is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to the act of causing damage or deformity to a person's appearance. Example: The car accident left him with permanent disfiguration on his face, causing him to shy away from social gatherings.
In the catalogue accompanying the show, the art historian Richard Schiff invites us to toss out these tired distinctions and think instead about "configuration" and "disfiguration".
Indian laws did not include the disfiguration of a woman in an acid attacks as a separate crime, but included the crime in the categories of hurt, grievous hurt, or attempt to murder.
Left untreated, the bacteria can spread to the bones and cartilage, often causing swelling, pain and facial disfiguration.
My permanent injuries have been limited to the loss of an eye, some facial disfiguration, and some slight mobility issues on my left side.
Ms. Cekovska interestingly conveys the picture's disfiguration musically through wordless boy-soprano melodies that recur increasingly distorted.
The actor's habitual tic, like the slight disfiguration to his face, suffered in a near-fatal motorcycle accident several years ago, add to the menacing effect.
Prosecutors charged a Long Island man yesterday with assault and impersonating a doctor after he performed liposuction and cosmetic surgery on the abdomen of a 34-year-old Queens woman, who they said suffered "severe scarring and disfiguration" as a result.
It is understandable that disfiguration might cause psychological suffering, but replacing one face with another will not solve the problem.
The wicks were lit at the start of the exhibition, and the progressive melting, with its resulting cavities, disfigurations, and dripping or puddling wax, would continue until the end of the show, after which Joannou would have the figures recast and repainted.
His novels are full of disabilities and disfigurations — blindness, deafness, epilepsy, drug addiction, discolorations of the skin — and his heroes are often outsiders, damaged in soul and body.
Inside, he knows he's like every other kid, but even after 27 surgeries, the central character of "Wonder" bears facial disfigurations so pronounced that people who see him for the first time do "that look-away thing" — if they manage to hide their shock and horror.
