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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.
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vb. (en-past of: amputate)
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Usage examples of "amputated".
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.
The finger was then amputated at the second joint and the plastic operation completed, with a result pleasing both to patient and operator.
The amputated finger was wrapped up in a piece of brown paper, and, being apparently healthy and the wound absolutely clean, it was fixed in the normal position on the stump, and covered by a bichlorid dressing.
Jackson, quoted by Ashhurst, had a patient from whom he simultaneously amputated all four limbs for frost-bite.
The great relief afforded by this operation so changed his aversion to being operated upon that on the next day he begged to have both legs amputated in the same manner, which was done, three days afterward, with the same favorable result.
In order to avoid chill and exposure, he was operated on in his old clothes, and while one limb was being amputated the other was being prepared.
It sometimes happens that the virile member is amputated by an animal bite.