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amputation

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amputation

Removal of part or all of a limb or other body appendage through surgery or accident.
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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.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
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.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
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.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
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