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A condition of disability resulting from the loss of one or more limbs
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amputation
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Amputation is the removal of a limb by trauma , medical illness , or surgery . As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene . In some cases, it is carried out on individuals ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 surgical removal of all or part of a limb, etc. 2 the loss of a limb, etc. through trauma
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "a cutting off of tree branches, a pruning," also "operation of cutting off a limb, etc., of a body," from Middle French amputation or directly from Latin amputationem (nominative amputatio ), noun of action from past participle stem of amputare ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a condition of disability resulting from the loss of one or more limbs a surgical removal of all or part of a limb
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amputation \Am`pu*ta"tion\, n. [L. amputatio: cf. F. amputation.] The act of amputating; esp. the operation of cutting off a limb or projecting part of the body.
Usage examples of amputation.
Westminster Hospital in London, there is preserved the right humerus and scapula, presenting an enormous bulk, which was removed by amputation at the shoulder-joint, for a large lymphosarcoma growing just above the clavicle.
Owen speaks of a woman who was greatly excited ten months previously by a prurient curiosity to see what appearance the genitals of her brother presented after he had submitted to amputation of the penis on account of carcinoma.
Montgomery, in an excellent paper, advances the theory, which is very plausible, that intrauterine amputations are caused by contraction of bands or membranes of organized lymph encircling the limb and producing amputation by the same process of disjunctive atrophy that the surgeons induce by ligature.
Blake speaks of a case of congenital amputation of both the upper extremities.
Buchanan describes a case illustrative of the etiology of spontaneous amputation of limbs in utero Nebinger reports a case of abortion, showing commencing amputation of the left thigh from being encircled by the funis.
Simpson published an article on spontaneous amputation of the forearm and rudimentary regeneration of the hand in the fetus.
After a double amputation of the legs she miscarried and made a good recovery.
Vesey speaks of amputation for compound fracture of the arm, labor following ten hours afterward with recovery.
Keen reports the successful performance of a hip-joint amputation for malignant disease of the femur during pregnancy.
Falla also says that instances of intrauterine digital amputation are occasionally seen.
Belinovski gives an account of a hip-joint amputation and extirpation of a fatty caudal extremity, the only one he had ever observed.
Aetius said that the Egyptians practiced amputation of the clitoris, so that enlargement of this organ must have been a common vice of conformation along the Nile.
Brulet, Van Esh, Farmer, Ponteau, Regnault, and Rosenberg cite instances of reunion of a digit after amputation or severance.
In this instance no joint was involved, the amputation being in the middle of the 2d phalanx.
His fellow-workmen, without delay, wound a piece of rope around each bleeding member, and the man recovered after primary amputation of each stump.