
thumb|15th-century depiction of Adoni-Bezek being mutilated thumb|The Martyrdom of Hippolytus of Rome|St. Hippolytus by [[Dieric Bouts]] thumb|Aztec stone disk depicting a dismembered [[Coyolxauhqui which was found during construction in 1978 in Mexico City. Its discovery led to the excavation of the Templo Mayor.]]
thumb|15th-century depiction of Adoni-Bezek being mutilated thumb|The Martyrdom of Hippolytus of Rome|St. Hippolytus by [[Dieric Bouts]] thumb|Aztec stone disk depicting a dismembered [[Coyolxauhqui which was found during construction in 1978 in Mexico City. Its discovery led to the excavation of the Templo Mayor.]]
Dismemberment is the act of completely disconnecting and removing the limbs, skin, or organs from a living or dead being. It has been practiced upon human beings as a form of capital punishment, especially in connection with regicide, but can occur as a result of a traumatic accident, or in connection with murder, suicide, or cannibalism. As opposed to surgical amputation of limbs, dismemberment is often fatal. In criminology, a distinction is made between offensive dismemberment, in which dismemberment is the primary objective of the dismemberer, and defensive dismemberment, in which the motivation is to destroy evidence.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).