Amputation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for AMPUTATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of amputating
• the action of surgically cutting off a limb
• The act of amputating; esp. the operation of cutting off a limb or projecting part of the body.
• a condition of disability resulting from the loss of one or more limbs
• a surgical removal of all or part of a limb
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to remove by or as if by cutting; to cut (as a limb) from the body

Words related to AMPUTATION

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Words that contain AMPUTATION

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How to use AMPUTATION in a sentence

• While we were there a consulting surgeon arrived to investigate the condition of a seriously wounded lieutenant, whose leg might need amputation.
• Silk-covered cushions from Hun drawing-rooms for painful amputation stumps! So I had the double pleasure, all the expectancy and the delight of seeing our men so pleased.
• In such weather any man could have undergone amputation with great ease, and helped take up the arteries himself.
• He differs, in point of fact, chiefly by reason of possessing a tail, the amputation of which is a recognised custom in England.
• Most of the sufferers were hurt in the limbs, some had undergone amputation, and all had, I presume, received such attention as was required.
• Henry, was brought as soon as possible, who decided that nothing could save his life but the amputation of both legs, just below the knee.
• Amputation is the least I can hope for now, but will the trouble spread? That is the serious question.
• The amputation or the weakening of certain members is always to the advantage of the whole body.
• Those who were brought into the hospitals were generally grievously wounded, very commonly subjects for amputation.
• Amputation was impossible for the gangrene had reached too far.
• But if one of them is out of order, there is need of a remedy and if the medicine does not heal, then the amputation of that member becomes necessary.
• When a limb is hopelessly charred, amputation is the only course.
• As he had used crutches for some time before the amputation he soon learned to accommodate himself to their new use.
• For the least fault, some amputation, and the most cruelly punished are those whose ears are cut off, because they can no longer wear rings in their ears.
• A group of men stood around him, talking of that strange amputation, and he was full of chat and cheerfulness.
• When he was in the amputation room I heard his shrieks and groans, and carried a glass of wine to the door for him.
• The consequence was, such a violent fever and inflammation had taken place that any attempt to save life by amputation would only have hastened his end.
• Will amputation save her? Her affairs and her mind want settling.
• Where amputation was performed, eight out of ten died.
• On Wednesday, a second amputation, near the shoulder, was necessary, when General Bragg sent an aid to ask if he would not be relieved of his command.
• Several of them suffered the amputation of their limbs, five of them died of their wounds, and were committed to their watery graves.
• Her master, she told us, was too mean to give his slaves clothes enough to protect them, and her feet and legs were so badly frozen that they required amputation.
• In January, 1863, another amputation was performed higher up above the knee.
• Amputation at the shoulder-joint was the only way of saving his life.

Similar words containing AMPUTA without suffix tion

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