amputation

cutting off, especially of a body part: After the amputation of his leg he was fitted for a prosthesis.

Not to be confused with:

imputation – an accusation; an attribution, as of fault: His imputation was completely off base.

am·pu·tate

(ăm′pyo͝o-tāt′)

tr.v. am·pu·tat·ed, am·pu·tat·ing, am·pu·tates

To cut off (a projecting body part), especially by surgery.

[Latin amputāre, amputāt-, to cut around : am-, ambi-, around; see ambi- + putāre, to cut; see pau- in Indo-European roots.]

am′pu·ta′tion n.

am′pu·ta′tor n.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

amputation

Surgery to remove a limb.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	amputation - a condition of disability resulting from the loss of one or more limbs disability, disablement, handicap, impairment - the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness; "reading disability"; "hearing impairment"
	2.	amputation - a surgical removal of all or part of a limb surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process, surgery, operation - a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery"

Translations

بَـتْـر

amputace

amputation

amputaatio

amputacija

amputálás

aflimun

amputation

[ˌæmpjʊˈteɪʃən] N → amputación f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

amputation

[ˌæmpjʊˈteɪʃ^ən] n [limb, hand, tail] → amputation f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

amputation

n → Amputation f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

amputation

[ˌæmpjʊˈteɪʃ/ən] n → amputazione f

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

amputate

(ˈӕmpjuteit) verb

(of a surgeon etc) to cut off (an arm or leg etc). They are going to have to amputate (his left leg).

ˌampuˈtation noun

am·pu·ta·tion

n. amputación, desmembración.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

amputation

n amputación f; above-the-knee — amputación por encima de la rodilla; below-the-knee— amputación por debajo de la rodilla

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But, though for ever mounted on that stump, never a stump-speech does the poor whaleman make; but, with downcast eyes, stands ruefully contemplating his own amputation. Throughout the Pacific, and also in Nantucket, and New Bedford, and Sag Harbor, you will come across lively sketches of whales and whaling-scenes, graven by the fishermen themselves on Sperm Whale-teeth, or ladies' busks wrought out of the Right Whale-bone, and other like skrimshander articles, as the whalemen call the numerous little ingenious contrivances they elaborately carve out of the rough material, in their hours of ocean leisure.

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"Of course you may put it that way," was the reply; "but, seriously, I once threw over a most charming girl on learning quite accidentally that she had suffered amputation of a toe.

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I said I believed the average man dreaded tooth-pulling more than amputation, and that he would yell quicker under the former operation than he would under the latter.

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The white double rose-bush had evidently been propped up anew against the house since the commencement of the season; and a pear-tree and three damson-trees, which, except a row of currant-bushes, constituted the only varieties of fruit, bore marks of the recent amputation of several superfluous or defective limbs.

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He had heard of the case of an orphan muffin boy, who, having been run over by a hackney carriage, had been removed to the hospital, had undergone the amputation of his leg below the knee, and was now actually pursuing his occupation on crutches.

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A glass door gave entrance from this portico into an antechamber, a species of gallery paved in red tiles and wainscoted, which served as a hospital for the family portraits,--some having an eye put out, others suffering from a dislocated shoulder; this one held his hat in a hand that no longer existed; that one was a case of amputation at the knee.

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The leg in question was so badly shattered by three '38 calibre bullets that amputation was necessary.

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Mutilations, amputations, dislocation of the joints, "restorations"; this is the Greek, Roman, and barbarian work of professors according to Vitruvius and Vignole.

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Each width contained the figure, with the slight exception of one arm of the general, which ran over on the next piece, so that when Richard essayed, with his own hands, to put together this delicate outline, some difficulties occurred that prevented a nice conjunction; and Britannia had reason to lament, in addition to the loss of her favorite’s life, numberless cruel amputations of his right arm.

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As a soldier, he loathed all this secretive carnage; where were these extravagant amputations going to stop?

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Prevalence of diabetic foot ulceration is 4-10% in Pakistan11, and the amputation rates following foot ulceration are 8-21%12,13.

A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON DIABETIC FOOT ULCERS LEADING TO AMPUTATIONS

Keywords: Amputation, Mobility, Prosthesis, Pain, Quality of life, Rehabilitation.

QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG LOWER LIMB PROSTHESIS USERS ATTENDING ARTIFICIAL LIMB CENTER OF FAUJI FOUNDATION HOSPITAL RAWALPINDI