verb
definition
To surgically remove a part of the body, especially a limb
adjective
definition
Having been removed or cut off.
Examples of amputated in a Sentence
The loss of an eye will be followed by atrophy of the optic nerve; the tissues in a stump of an amputated limb show atrophic changes; a paralysed limb from long disuse shows much wasting; and one finds at great depths of the sea fishes and marine animals, which have almost completely lost the organs of sight, having been cut off for long ages from the stimuli (light) essential for these organs, and so brought into an atrophic condition from disuse.
Her right leg was badly affected and eventually amputated.
The conduction through the amputated cell branches continues unimpaired for many hours.
Men just get their hands amputated for similar offenses.
The wounded man was shown his amputated leg stained with clotted blood and with the boot still on.
One victim had to have her arms amputated at the elbow.
Hannah had to have both of her legs and arms amputated after developing blood poisoning having caught meningitis when she was three years old.
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Three of them had fingers or toes amputated and their wounds took months to heal during the dark Arctic winter.
Phantom limb pain occurs after a limb is amputated; although an individual may be missing the limb, the nervous system continues to perceive pain originating from the area.
Amputations may be partial (some tissue connects the amputated part to the body) or complete (the amputated part is completely severed from the body).
About 80 percent of all amputees over the age of four experience tingling, itching, numbness, or pain in the place where the amputated part used to be.
About 30 percent of amputees experience a sensation of the amputated part "telescoping" or shrinking into the viable part of the limb.
A partial or complete amputation is a medical emergency and as such, the affected child (and amputated body part, if possible) should be transported to an emergency center immediately.
When the patient and the amputated part(s) reach the hospital, a physician will assess the probability that the severed tissue can be successfully reattached (called replantation).
The total score is doubled if blood supply to the amputated part has been absent or diminished for more than six hours.
Saving the patient's life is always more important than recovering the amputated part(s).
An amputated body part should be wrapped in bandages, towels, or other clean, protective material and sealed in a plastic bag.
No amputated body part is too small to be salvaged.
A number of factors influence whether an amputated part can be successfully reattached.
Phantom pain-Pain, tingling, itching, or numbness in the place where the amputated part used to be.
The legend goes that if you wear a titanium ring and you get in some sort of terrible accident wherein your hand is crushed, your finger will have to be amputated because titanium is too durable to be cut.
In April 1644 he attacked the Portuguese island of Saint Martin and was wounded; he had to return to Holland, and there one of his legs was amputated.
He broke his ankle very badly, and it was thought he would have to have his foot amputated.
As a result of my body attacking itself seven fingers were partially amputated in 2000.
Jackson's left arm was successfully amputated but he developed pneumonia and he died at Guinea Station on 10th May, 1863.
He fell inside the machine and triggered a sensor which automatically started the machinery, which then amputated his legs.
She suffered extreme frost bite in both feet which were subsequently amputated.
Occasionally, the end of the fingertip is torn off (amputated).
A general, emergency, or orthopedic surgeon makes the final determination about whether surgery should be performed to reattach the amputated part(s).