Associations to the word «Amputation»

Wiktionary

AMPUTATION, noun. Surgical removal of all or part of a limb, etc.
AMPUTATION, noun. The loss of a limb, etc. through trauma

Dictionary definition

AMPUTATION, noun. A condition of disability resulting from the loss of one or more limbs.
AMPUTATION, noun. A surgical removal of all or part of a limb.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope