Crossword clues for amputate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amputate \Am"pu*tate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Amputated; p. pr. & vb. n. Amputating.] [L. amputatus, p. p. of amputare: amb- + putare to prune, putus clean, akin to E. pure. See Putative.]
To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils.
(Surg.) To cut off (a limb or projecting part of the body).
--Wiseman.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, back-formation from amputation or else from Latin amputatus, past participle of amputare "to cut off, to prune." Related: Amputated; amputating.
Wiktionary
vb. To surgically remove a part of the body, especially a limb
WordNet
v. remove surgically; "amputate limbs" [syn: cut off]
Usage examples of "amputate".
In the calmest way the heroic General instructed them to amputate it, again remaining unmoved throughout the operation.
Three years afterward the joint swelled and became extremely painful, and it was necessary to amputate the thumb.
The order has therefore been given to amputate without hesitation, as reprisals, every damaged limb.
He said if that were done they could amputate and save him, and the conversation ended in the surgeon giving the man to me to experiment on my theory.
They had thought to amputate, but found the bone shattered from joint to joint--had, with a chain saw, cut it off above the knee, and picked out the bone in pieces.
The only way to do that, using a human analogy, is to amputate the infected limb.
It lay behind the stump of the amputated cervix, in the culdesac of Douglas.
To expedite the extraction, she drew out an arm and amputated it, and finding the extraction still difficult, she cut off the head and completely emptied the womb, including the placenta.
Moreau quotes a case of an infant similar in conformation to the foregoing monster, who was born in Switzerland in 1764, and whose supernumerary parts were amputated by means of a ligature.
It has been noticed in the class of dogs whose tails are habitually amputated to improve their appearance that the tail gradually decreases in length.
Petrequin speaks of a male breast 18 inches long which he amputated, and Laurent gives the photograph of a man whose breasts measured 30 cm.
There is a record of a woman who in July, 1817, was discovered in cooking an amputated leg of her little child.
When at the battle of Dresden in 1813 Moreau, seated beside the Emperor Alexander, had both limbs shattered by a French cannon-ball, he did not utter a groan, but asked for a cigar and smoked leisurely while a surgeon amputated one of his members.
Crompton quotes another case, in which the patient held a candle with one hand while the operator amputated his other arm at the shoulder-joint.
Grafts from the rabbit and dog failed, and the skin from the amputated stump of a boy was employed, and the patient was able to leave the hospital in seven months.