amputation
Americannoun
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the act or instance of surgically removing a limb or part of a limb.
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the act of removing something by cutting, as if by surgery.
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a disability caused by the loss of a limb or part of a limb.
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Medicine/Medical. any absence or loss of a limb or part of a limb, whether congenitally or due to surgery or disease.
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Amputation of my phone from my hand would have perhaps dangerous consequences of isolation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025
Her stories “The Black American Amputation Epidemic” and “Tethered to the Machine” won the National Magazine Award for Public Interest in 2021.
From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2021
Amputation rates varied tenfold between the state’s richest and poorest neighborhoods, the study found.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2017
The single Amputation in particular paints a grim picture of a time during which the brothers “couldn’t get arrested”, as Jim puts it.
From The Guardian • Mar. 23, 2017
Amputation of Distal Phalanx of Great Toe.—This is comparatively rarely required now.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph
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