severed limbs
Cut-off body parts
Severed limbs are arms or legs that have been cut or torn from the body.
The phrase appears in medical contexts, accident reports, and descriptions of violence or war: Surgeons worked to reattach the severed limb.
In horror and action genres, severed limbs are a stock image of graphic brutality.
- amputationSurgical limb removal
- bloodyGore-covered or British curse
- stumpTrunk base after felling
- dismemberedHad limbs cut off
- body partsCorporeal structural elements
gore · prosthetic · wound · hacked · chopped · mangled · torn · flesh · bone · grisly · battlefield · surgeon · phantom · phantom pain · tourniquet · cleaved · detached · carnage
- haunted attractionshaunted house, jump scare, haunted maze, jump scares, strobe light
- horrorhorror, terror, fear, dread, haunted
- fearsspiders, snakes, falling, heights, death