severed hand
Cut-off body part
A severed hand is a human hand that has been cut or torn from the body.
The phrase appears in medical and forensic contexts, horror fiction, and crime reporting.
A severed hand found at a scene suggests violence or accident: Police discovered a severed hand in the dumpster.
In fantasy and folklore, severed hands sometimes retain agency or magical properties.
- dismemberedHad limbs cut off
- bloodyGore-covered or British curse
- stumpTrunk base after felling
- clean cutNeat and respectable-looking
- fingersAppendages of the hand
bloody stump · wrist · nerve endings · grasping · death grip · pale · cold · lifeless · amputation · cleaver · horror · horror movie · detached · crawling · rigor · body part · flesh · bone
- Halloweenjack-o-lantern, trick or treating, haunted mansion, pumpkin, trick-or-treat
- horror symbolsskull, skeleton, coffin, tombstone, grave