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Amputation | Johns Hopkins Medicine
Amputation is the loss or removal of a body part such as a finger, toe, hand, foot, arm or leg . It can be a life changing experience affecting your ability to move, work, interact with others and maintain your independence. Continuing pain, phantom limb phenomena and emotional trauma can complicate recovery.
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Amputation - Wikipedia
Amputation is the removal of a limb or other body part by trauma, medical illness, or surgery. As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease ...
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Amputation: What It Is, Types, Risks & Recovery - Cleveland Clinic
Amputation means surgically removing a body part, like a limb. You might need an amputation if your limb has a life-threatening injury or disease.
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amputating
amputating, vbl. n. (ˈæmpjuːteɪtɪŋ) [f. as prec. + -ing1.] The action of cutting off; amputation. (Mostly gerundial or attrib.)1639 Woodall in Rees Cycl. (1803) The amputating of any member in the mortified part. 1775 Gooch in Phil. Trans. LXV. 374 It was the best stump he had ever seen, which he as...
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Leg or foot amputation: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia
Leg or foot amputation is the removal of a leg, foot or toes from the body. These body parts are called extremities. Amputations are done either by surgery.
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AMPUTATE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of AMPUTATE is to remove by or as if by cutting; especially : to cut (a part, such as a limb) from the body.
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Pinioning
Procedure
Removing the pinion joint of a bird stops the growth of the primary feathers, preventing the acceleration required for flight and is analogous to amputating
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Amputation - NHS
An amputation is the surgical removal of part of the body, such as an arm or leg. This topic may be helpful if you, a friend, or a member of your family, ...
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AMPUTATING | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
Meaning of amputating in English ... to cut off a part of the body: They had to amputate his foot to free him from the wreckage. In these cases there is no choice ...
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Limb Amputation: Reasons, Procedure, Recovery - WebMD
Amputation is the surgical removal of all or part of a limb or extremity such as an arm, leg, foot, hand, toe, or finger.
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Below-Knee Amputation Surgery Procedure & Recovery
What Is Below-Knee Amputation? The goal of amputation is to remove unhealthy tissue and create a remaining leg that is less painful and more useful.
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Knee Disarticulation and Amputation - Video Details
Knee disarticulation and amputation demonstrated for a patient with a previous ankle disarticulation and a history of diabetes and spinal cord injury.
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amputate
amputate, v. (ˈæmpjuːteɪt) [f. L. amputāt- ppl. stem of amputā-re to cut off or away, f. am- = amb- about + putā-re to prune, lop.] 1. gen. To cut or lop off, e.g. the branches of trees in pruning. Obs. exc. as a fig. use of 2.1638 Penit. Conf. xii. (1657) 335 'Tis not impossible for a quick and fru...
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Poggendorff illusion
Many detailed studies of the illusion, including "amputating" various components point to its principal cause: acute angles in the figure are seen by viewers
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Daniel Brainard
Career
Brainard made his reputation in Chicago by successfully amputating at the hip joint the leg of an injured canal worker, the first such operation
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