AMPUTATION
\ˌampjuːtˈe͡ɪʃən], \ˌampjuːtˈeɪʃən], \ˌa_m_p_j_uː_t_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of AMPUTATION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 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 William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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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
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