AMPUTATION
\ˌampjuːtˈe͡ɪʃən], \ˌampjuːtˈeɪʃən], \ˌa_m_p_j_uː_t_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of AMPUTATION
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- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Noah Webster.
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By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. The cutting off of a limb or part of a limb, the breast, or other projecting part. (For amputations named after the operators, Chopart's, Lisfranc's, Pirogoff's, etc., see the proper names and the illustrations.) 2. In dentistry, the removal of the apical portion of the root of a tooth by means of the dental bur.
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Brachiotomy.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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The operation of separating, by means of a cutting instrument, a limb or a part of a limb, or a projecting part, as the mamma, penis, &c., from the rest of the body. In the case of a tumour, the term excision, removal, or extirpation, (F.) Resection, is more commonly used.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The operation or process of cutting off a limb in part or entirely, or a projecting part of the body, as the breast, the tongue, the penis, etc. In the case of an internal organ or a tumor, the terms excision, extirpation, or removal are used. In dentistry, the operation of excising with a surgical bur the apical portion of a diseased root.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
