maim: 1. To disable or disfigure, usually by depriving of the use of a limb or other part of the body.
2. To make imperfect or defective; impair.
hypotenuse: The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
[Latin hypotnsa, from Greek hupoteinousa, from feminine present participle of hupoteinein, to stretch or extend under : hupo-, hypo- + teinein, to stretch; see ten- in Indo-European Roots.]