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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... Oxford English Dictionary
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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 wikipedia.org
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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... Oxford English Dictionary
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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 wikipedia.org
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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 wikipedia.org
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osteosarcoma
‖ ˌosteosarˈcoma Path. [f. osteo- + sarcoma.] 1. Sarcoma in the bone; ‘term for a disease of the bone in which a fleshy, medullary, or cartilaginous mass grows within it’ (Mayne, 1857).1807–26 S. Cooper First Lines Surg. (ed. 5) 391 Osteo⁓sarcoma, and some inveterate fungous diseases of the lower ja... Oxford English Dictionary
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Bernard Peyrilhe
He considered that the risks of amputating the pectoral muscle were outweighed by the otherwise certain outcome of death. wikipedia.org
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Political mutilation in Byzantine culture
Other mutilations were the severing of the nose (rhinotomy), or the amputating of limbs. wikipedia.org
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David Lambert (trade unionist, born 1933)
In 1988, his description of the closure of the apparently viable Mansfield Knitwear Company -as like amputating the torso of the industry at a stroke- wikipedia.org
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Acrotomophilia
Ethical issues Some people question whether amputating one's own body parts or operating on a partner for the sake of sexual pleasure is ethical. wikipedia.org
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An eight-month-old boy found in the ruins three days after the earthquake. Doctors here at this Israeli field hospital in Port-au-Prince did what they could to avoid amputating his leg. But his injuries were just too severe, his parents' whereabouts
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Charlotte Cleverley-Bisman
This was done on 2 July, amputating both her legs and left arm, "optimistically" transecting the knee joints, rather than amputating above them, hoping wikipedia.org
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Yubitsume
otoshimae is a Japanese ritual to atone for offenses to another, a way to be punished or to show sincere apology and remorse to another, by means of amputating wikipedia.org
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Arve Opsahl
By 1999, his health had deteriorated to the point where he had to spend two weeks on a breathing machine, in addition to amputating a leg due to diabetes wikipedia.org
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Tidarren argo
The species is remarkable by its male amputating one of its palps before maturation and entering his adult life with one palp only. wikipedia.org
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