Citations:mutility

English citations of mutility

noun: deformity, defectivity [Late Latin mutilitās]

• 1910, The Old Dominion Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume XI, page 217:

  Its pathological nature is constituted by its perpetuation into an inappropriate movement which the conviction of its mutility cannot abolish.

• 1921, New York Medical Journal, volume CXIV, page 276, chart v (caption):

  Case of marginal ulcer following gastroenterostomy showing regurgitated bile stained pus and bacteria. Note extremely rapid mutility.

• 1983, The Indian Journal of English Studies, volume XXII, page 21:

  They are horrified by the ephemeral nature of love. Like all other attachments in human life, love too is vulnerable to the onslaught of time and mutility. The moment of fulfilment reminds them of the finality of decay and there begins disruption. Renunciation is the only inevitable fact for the thawarted lovers of Emily Dickinson.

• 1985, Transactions of the Fiftieth North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, page 636:

  Clearly, significant scientific, sociological, and economic reasons suggest continuation of present efforts to establish and understand the role of disease (and other elements of natural mutility) in wild, and captive, estuarine and marine populations.