flap amputation

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Amputation in which flaps of muscular and cutaneous tissues are used to cover the end of the bone.flap operation

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Are you aware how often people swap around “their,” “there,” and “they’re”? Prove you have more than a fair grasp over these commonly confused words.

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Which one of these commonly confused words can act as an adverb or a pronoun?

My editor called and said, “Do a column on this Lena Dunham flap!”
Up to a Point: They Made Me Write About Lena Dunham|P. J. O’Rourke|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Yet, after flipping through Not That Kind of Girl, I do begin to understand what “this Lena Dunham flap” is about.
Up to a Point: They Made Me Write About Lena Dunham|P. J. O’Rourke|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If you flap your arms hard enough, a pair of vast feathered wings appears to grow out from your shoulders.
Frickin’ Laser Beams Run by Eyeballs: The Next Art Revolution Is Here|Nico Hines|July 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
One year after the Boston bombing, a maimed survivor faces the choice of amputation.
The Daily Beast’s Best Longreads, April 12, 2014||April 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Take my former boss, Mitt Romney, and the flap over a Jeep plant in Ohio.
When Campaign Spin Becomes Fact|Stuart Stevens|March 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He shifted across to the mouth of the tent and raised the flap, fastening it against the pole so that he could see out.
Three More John Silence Stories|Algernon Blackwood
"That's the wind rising," whispered the clergyman, and pulled the flap open as far as it would go.
Three More John Silence Stories|Algernon Blackwood
And as I watched the canvas shake and heard it boom and flap I heartily welcomed it.
Three More John Silence Stories|Algernon Blackwood
The flap was wide open and any ordinary animal would have been out and away without the least trouble.
Three More John Silence Stories|Algernon Blackwood
Mother thinks a dash-churn, stand and flap the dasher straight up and down till your arms and legs give out, is the best kind.
Dorothy at Skyrie|Evelyn Raymond