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Definition of Amputates
1. amputate [v] - See also: amputate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amputates
Literary usage of Amputates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Memoirs of Paul Kruger: Four Times President of the South African Republic by Paul Kruger (1902)
"... fight with a buffalo-cow—Elephant-hunting—Race between Kruger and an
elephant—Canine fidelity—Kruger amputates his own thumb. ..."
2. The Graded School Speller by Frank Ellsworth Spaulding, William Dana Miller (1914)
"He even amputates limbs when necessary. An ambulance carries injured people.
II A doctor knows how to make poultices. Sometimes he applies a blister. ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1873)
"Braun removes elliptical folds from either the anterior or posterior walls of
the vagina, or from both, at the same time that he amputates the vaginal part ..."
4. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1848)
"And this he illustrates in the following manner :—Two surgeons have each six
patients affected with gangrene; one amputates on three and recovers two of ..."
5. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy (1894)
"Science both amputates error and destroys it. Mankind is the better for this
sincere and profound surgery. The profession of medicine originated in idolatry ..."
6. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1891)
"Does anyone pretend to say that when a surgeon amputates a leg, giving the patient
a useful stump, that is not a success? I hold that it is. ..."
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