Amputate
verb
To cut off a part of a person's or animal's body, usually because it's injured or diseased.
The doctors had to amputate his leg to stop the infection from spreading.
Often appears as...
- amputate a limb
- amputate due to infection
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Technical
verb
To cut off a part of a person's or animal's body, usually because it's injured or diseased.
The doctors had to amputate his leg to stop the infection from spreading.
Often appears as...
- amputate a limb
- amputate due to infection
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Severity
Used mostly in serious medical situations to describe the removal of body parts.
After the crash, the surgeon decided to amputate to save the patient's life.
Pro Tip 2/3Last Resort
Amputation is often the last option when other treatments fail or are not viable.
Despite the therapy, they had to amputate to prevent the cancer from spreading.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
Can suggest emotional distress; it's a significant, life-changing event for many.
He struggled to accept the need to amputate his foot after the infection.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Severity
Used mostly in serious medical situations to describe the removal of body parts.
After the crash, the surgeon decided to amputate to save the patient's life.
Pro Tip 2/3Last Resort
Amputation is often the last option when other treatments fail or are not viable.
Despite the therapy, they had to amputate to prevent the cancer from spreading.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
Can suggest emotional distress; it's a significant, life-changing event for many.
He struggled to accept the need to amputate his foot after the infection.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Severity
Used mostly in serious medical situations to describe the removal of body parts.
After the crash, the surgeon decided to amputate to save the patient's life.
Pro Tip 2/3Last Resort
Amputation is often the last option when other treatments fail or are not viable.
Despite the therapy, they had to amputate to prevent the cancer from spreading.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
Can suggest emotional distress; it's a significant, life-changing event for many.
He struggled to accept the need to amputate his foot after the infection.
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Outlasting the Enemy in...
cover the entire left side of my body my left leg one guy's legs amputated another guy's been shot in the pelvis in the bicep and another's been shot through his ankle my triceps hanging off I've been through a lot of adversity in my life this was just another test and I knew if I could make it through then I
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3 clues to understanding...
OK, how is all this complex circuitry set up in the brain? Is it nature, genes, or is it nurture? And we approach this problem by considering another curious syndrome called phantom limb. And you all know what a phantom limb is. When an arm is amputated, or a leg is amputated, for gangrene,
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New bionics let us run,...
Every person should have the right to live life without disability if they so choose -- the right to live life without severe depression; the right to see a loved one, in the case of seeing-impaired; or the right to walk or to dance, in the case of limb paralysis or limb amputation.
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How we'll become cyborgs...
that he has his body back. Now I'm often asked when I'm going to be neurally linked to my synthetic limbs bidirectionally, when I'm going to become a cyborg. The truth is, I'm hesitant to become a cyborg. Before my legs were amputated, I was a terrible student.
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Is the obesity crisis...
bed I thought to myself if you just try caring even a little bit you wouldn't be in this situation at this moment with some doctor you've never met about to amputate your foot why did I feel justified in judging her I'd like to say I don't know but I
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Peter Attia: What if...
The question that was being asked of me was a different one, which was, did she also need an amputation? Now, looking back on that night, I'd love so desperately to believe that I treated that woman on that night with the same empathy and compassion
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David Brooks: The social...
who respond in straightforward ways to incentives, and it's led to ways of seeing the world where people try to use the assumptions of physics to measure how human behavior is. And it's produced a great amputation, a shallow view of human nature.
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How can we make music...
platform of collaboration between brilliant makers together we developed devices that enabled blind paralyzed amputated in autistic musicians to express themselves in new ways like a system that helps a paralyzed producer
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Todd Kuiken: A...
the stuff of life meets machine. And specifically, I'd like to talk with you about how bionics is evolving for people with arm amputations. This is our motivation. Arm amputation causes a huge disability.
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How to turn your...
My husband's elderly aunt was burned alive, and I thought of my own two-year old as I saw images of little children with amputated limbs. Colleagues said to me, "How could we help?" I didn't know,
Video examples
Outlasting the Enemy in...
cover the entire left side of my body my left leg one guy's legs amputated another guy's been shot in the pelvis in the bicep and another's been shot through his ankle my triceps hanging off I've been through a lot of adversity in my life this was just another test and I knew if I could make it through then I
Video examples
3 clues to understanding...
OK, how is all this complex circuitry set up in the brain? Is it nature, genes, or is it nurture? And we approach this problem by considering another curious syndrome called phantom limb. And you all know what a phantom limb is. When an arm is amputated, or a leg is amputated, for gangrene,
Video examples
New bionics let us run,...
Every person should have the right to live life without disability if they so choose -- the right to live life without severe depression; the right to see a loved one, in the case of seeing-impaired; or the right to walk or to dance, in the case of limb paralysis or limb amputation.
Video examples
How we'll become cyborgs...
that he has his body back. Now I'm often asked when I'm going to be neurally linked to my synthetic limbs bidirectionally, when I'm going to become a cyborg. The truth is, I'm hesitant to become a cyborg. Before my legs were amputated, I was a terrible student.
Video examples
Is the obesity crisis...
bed I thought to myself if you just try caring even a little bit you wouldn't be in this situation at this moment with some doctor you've never met about to amputate your foot why did I feel justified in judging her I'd like to say I don't know but I
Video examples
Peter Attia: What if...
The question that was being asked of me was a different one, which was, did she also need an amputation? Now, looking back on that night, I'd love so desperately to believe that I treated that woman on that night with the same empathy and compassion
Video examples
David Brooks: The social...
who respond in straightforward ways to incentives, and it's led to ways of seeing the world where people try to use the assumptions of physics to measure how human behavior is. And it's produced a great amputation, a shallow view of human nature.
Video examples
How can we make music...
platform of collaboration between brilliant makers together we developed devices that enabled blind paralyzed amputated in autistic musicians to express themselves in new ways like a system that helps a paralyzed producer
Video examples
Todd Kuiken: A...
the stuff of life meets machine. And specifically, I'd like to talk with you about how bionics is evolving for people with arm amputations. This is our motivation. Arm amputation causes a huge disability.
Video examples
How to turn your...
My husband's elderly aunt was burned alive, and I thought of my own two-year old as I saw images of little children with amputated limbs. Colleagues said to me, "How could we help?" I didn't know,
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Quote examples
Robert Lanza
American Scientist
So someday in the near future hopefully rather than having a foot or a leg amputated we'll just give you an injection of the cells and restore the blood flow. We've also created entire tubes of red blood cells from scratch in the laboratory. So there are a lot of exciting things in the pipeline.
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Isoroku Yamamoto
Japanese Admiral
I entered the navy with the great ambition of becoming a naval soldier and going to war. Either I die from this festering wound - because I refuse to have my arm amputated - or I recover from it and continue being a soldier. I have a one-in-two chance, and I shall bet my life on it!
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Iranian Director
When we began filming, these people had legs, but as we were filming, they had been injured and they were brought to the hospital to have their legs amputated, and that's where we found them and asked them to come and be part of the film.
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Amy Purdy
American Actress
We did everything we could to save my legs, and it just came to a point where if we didn't amputate my legs, I wouldn't survive. In that situation, you kind of go into survival mode, and you find strength.
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Lauren Wasser
My left foot is severely damaged from TSS, and I'm probably going to have to amputate my left leg. I could be super depressed about it, but I have been given a second chance. I'm here, and I'm living.
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Oksana Masters
American Athlete
When I first had my legs amputated, it was hard for me to be positive and feel pretty. Many people don't know that someone with a disability can be strong and beautiful and successful as an athlete.
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Jay Williams
American Athlete
I was very close to having my whole leg amputated. It was a life-altering event. It took years of rehab.
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Margaret Atwood
Canadian Novelist
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
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Dick Dale
American Musician
I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.
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Bryce Dallas Howard
American Actress
I would amputate my toes to work with Lars von Trier again.
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Robert Lanza
American Scientist
So someday in the near future hopefully rather than having a foot or a leg amputated we'll just give you an injection of the cells and restore the blood flow. We've also created entire tubes of red blood cells from scratch in the laboratory. So there are a lot of exciting things in the pipeline.
Quote examples
Isoroku Yamamoto
Japanese Admiral
I entered the navy with the great ambition of becoming a naval soldier and going to war. Either I die from this festering wound - because I refuse to have my arm amputated - or I recover from it and continue being a soldier. I have a one-in-two chance, and I shall bet my life on it!
Quote examples
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Iranian Director
When we began filming, these people had legs, but as we were filming, they had been injured and they were brought to the hospital to have their legs amputated, and that's where we found them and asked them to come and be part of the film.
Quote examples
Amy Purdy
American Actress
We did everything we could to save my legs, and it just came to a point where if we didn't amputate my legs, I wouldn't survive. In that situation, you kind of go into survival mode, and you find strength.
Quote examples
Lauren Wasser
My left foot is severely damaged from TSS, and I'm probably going to have to amputate my left leg. I could be super depressed about it, but I have been given a second chance. I'm here, and I'm living.
Quote examples
Oksana Masters
American Athlete
When I first had my legs amputated, it was hard for me to be positive and feel pretty. Many people don't know that someone with a disability can be strong and beautiful and successful as an athlete.
Quote examples
Jay Williams
American Athlete
I was very close to having my whole leg amputated. It was a life-altering event. It took years of rehab.
Quote examples
Margaret Atwood
Canadian Novelist
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
Quote examples
Dick Dale
American Musician
I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.
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Bryce Dallas Howard
American Actress
I would amputate my toes to work with Lars von Trier again.
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