Disfigurement

State of having one's appearance injured or changed Face disfigured by syphilis This individual has hand eczema, which causes significant harm to the skin. Disfigurement is the state of having one's appearance deeply and persistently harmed medically, such as from a disease, birth defect, or wound. General societal attitudes towards disfigurement have varied greatly across cultures and over time, with cultures possessing strong social stigma against it often causing psychological distress to disfigured individuals. Alternatively, many societies have regarded some forms of disfigurement in a medical, scientific context where someone having ill will against the disfigured is viewed as anathema. In various religious and spiritual contexts, disfigurement has been variously described as being a punishment from the divine for sin (such as Yahweh's defacement of Cain for Abel's murder in Judaism), as being caused by supernatural forces of hate and evil against the good and just (such as Paul of the New Testament's arguments about Christ's sufferings), which will be later atoned for, or as being without explanation per se with people just having to endure. The topic has been frequently com