elliptical amputation

[ ĭ-lĭp′tĭ-kəl ]

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A form of circular amputation in which the sweep of the knife is not exactly vertical to the long axis of the limb.

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“I would go with yoga, light weight training or some elliptical,” he says.
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In an orbit made elliptical by the planetary attraction the sun necessarily occupies one of the foci of the ellipse.
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Ere liueEre I should live is required in full by strict grammar, but Fields verse is frequently elliptical.
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Exclamation is an expression of strong emotion in abrupt, inverted, or elliptical phrases.
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In our little set of college boys only one, was hurt; he receiving a wound in the leg, which caused its amputation.
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The entrance was a rather large elliptical arch; a man could enter by stooping.
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