body modification

English

Noun

body modification (countable and uncountable, plural body modifications)

Deliberate physical alteration of the human body for aesthetic purposes, such as tattooing and piercing.
- 2008, Belinda Bennett; Terry Carney; Isabel Karpin, Brave New World of Health, page 78:
  Voluntary amputeeism or apotemnophilia — where the subject wishes to have a limb or appendage removed — might arguably fall within the category of radical body modification.

Further reading

“body modification”, in Collins English Dictionary.
body modification at OneLook Dictionary Search
“body modification” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.

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