Amputation
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
The act of amputating; especially, the operation of cutting off a limb or other part of the body, or a portion of it.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
The act of amputating; esp. the operation of cutting off a limb or projecting part of the body.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
surgical
removal
of all or part of a
limb
, etc.
noun.
the
loss
of a limb, etc. through
trauma
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noun.
a condition of disability resulting from the loss of one or more limbs
noun.
a surgical removal of all or part of a limb