Amputation is the removal of a body extremity by trauma, prolonged constriction, or surgery.

* By type of procedure: Amputation involves cutting off a body part, usually a limb or digit ; castration is also an example.

Amputation of the leg is the initial treatment, although this alone will not prevent metastasis.

Amputation is common and major amputations ( of limbs rather than fingers / toes ) are almost twice as common in patients who continue to smoke.

Amputation at the hip is called hip disarticulation and amputees who have had this amputation are also called hip disartics.

Amputation has also been used as a tactic in war and acts of terrorism ; it may also occur as a war injury.

Dogpatch characters were used in national campaigns for the Cancer Foundation, the March of Dimes, the National Heart Fund, the Boy Scouts of America, Minnesota Tuberculosis and Health Association, the National Amputation Foundation, and Disabled American Veterans, among others.

In addition, Dogpatch characters were used in national campaigns for the U. S. Treasury, the Cancer Foundation, the March of Dimes, the National Heart Fund, the Sister Kenny Foundation, the Boy Scouts of America, Community Chest, the National Reading Council, Minnesota Tuberculosis and Health Association, Christmas Seals, the National Amputation Foundation and Disabled American Veterans, among others.

Amputation was an accepted form of punishment for stealing, and public executions could often be seen at the Kabul football stadium.

He also combined his many artistic, scientific, literary and teaching talents in a number of wax preparations and detailed anatomical and surgical illustrations, paintings and engravings in his several books on these subjects, such as in his book Illustrations of the Great Operations of Surgery: Trepan, Hernia, Amputation, Aneurism, and Lithotomy ( 1821 ).

After discussion of banning them from touring, Australian comedy act The Chaser did a lounge music version of their song " Rancid Amputation " on their show The Chaser's War on Everything, claiming that the music, and not the lyrics are the problem, by performing a lounge music version.

Amputation of the affected limb ( s ) may be necessary.

* Amputation ( penectomy )-a partial or total removal of the penis, and possibly the associated lymph nodes.

Amputation often triggers a downward spiral of declining quality of life, frequently leading to disability and death.

Amputation of the right leg followed, and, although his life was saved, the 26 year old was no longer capable of active military service.

Possible outcomes include Death, Hard Labour ( slavery ), Complete Acquittal ( freedom ), Gulag ( exile ), Aunty's Choice, Spin Again, Forfeit Goods, Underworld ( torture prison ), Amputation, and Life Imprisonment.

Amputation of the affected leg was also discussed.

Amputation became Immortal, Thou Shalt Suffer turned into Emperor, and Darkthrone swapped their Swedish-inspired death metal for primitive black metal.

Amputation of the arm, leg, jaw, or half of the pelvis ( called a hemipelvectomy ) may be necessary in some cases.

Amputation neuromas do not mediate normal sensation and are notorious for generating pain.

* Cantos, Mae ( 2005 ) " Pirates & Peg Legs: a Historical Look at Amputation and Prosthetics " In: Whitelaw, William A.

* Padula, Patricia A. and Friedmann, Lawrence W. ( 1987 ) " Acquired Amputation and Prostheses Before the Sixteenth Century " The Journal of Vascular Disease 38 ( 2 Pt.

In the first instance, `` mimesis '' is here used to mean the recalling of experience in terms of vivid images rather than in terms of abstract ideas or conventional designations.

A dominant motive is the poet's longing for his homeland and its boyhood associations: `` Not men-folk, but the fields where I would stray, The stones where as a child I used to play ''.

So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.

But what a super-Herculean task it is to winnow anything of value from the mud-beplastered arguments used so freely, particularly since such common use is made of cliches and stereotypes, in themselves declarations of intellectual bankruptcy.

This text from Dr. Huxley is sometimes used by enthusiasts to indicate that they have the permission of the scientists to press the case for a wonderful unfoldment of psychic powers in human beings.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

Properly used, the present book is an excellent instrument of enlightenment.

This prospect did not please Mrs. King any more than did the possibility that her daughter might marry a Bohemian, but she used it to suggest to Thompson that, `` It is not in her nature to love you ''.

On the other hand, the consensus of opinion is that, used with caution and in conjunction with other types of evidence, the native sources still provide a valid rough outline for the English settlement of southern Britain.

The trouble with this machinery is that it is not used and the reason that it is not used is the absence of a conscious sense of community among the free nations.

In addition to his experiments in reading poetry to jazz, Patchen is beginning to use the figure of the modern jazz musician as a myth hero in the same way he used the figure of the private detective a decade ago.

When different colors are used, she is just as likely to color trees purple, hair green, etc..

Berlin is merely being used by Moscow as a stalking horse.

The collection of information is meaningless unless it is understood and used for a definite purpose.

This is used as a reference for comparing the ohmic heating and the electrical energy obtained from the measured current through the element and the measured voltage across the element.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

Complementing the political principle of nationalism is the legal principle of sovereignty.

At the same time, because the personal code of the detective coincides with the legal dictates of his society, because he likes to catch criminals, he is in middle class eyes a virtuous man.

The basic premise of all mystery stories is that the distinction between good and bad coincides with the distinction between legal and illegal.

If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;

if he is legal, he may not be good.

Hammarskjold's supposed desire to seek outside legal advice in the guise of Ernest Gross is illusion, at best.

Mr. Stavropoulos is the U.N. legal chief and a very good man, but he is not fully versed on some technical points of American law ''.

The appeal is going to be to the pocketbook and may be very convincing to those who do not see its relation to political and legal, as well as economic, self-rule.

To think that we can merely relinquish our economic autonomy without giving up our political or legal autonomy is wishful thinking.

if such person is deceased or is under a legal disability, payment shall be made to his legal representative: Provided, That if the total award is not over $500 and there is no qualified executor or administrator, payment may be made to the person or persons found by the Comptroller General of the United States to be entitled thereto, without the necessity of compliance with the requirements of law with respect to the administration of estates ; ;

If the last day ( due date ) for performing any act for tax purposes, such as filing a return or making a tax payment, etc., falls on Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday, you may perform that act on the next succeeding day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.

If your principal place of abode for the tax year is outside the United States ( including Alaska and Hawaii ), Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands and you have no legal residence or principal place of business in any Internal Revenue district in the United States, you should file your return with the Office of International Operations, Internal Revenue Service, Washington 25, D.C..

Sir Henry Sumner Maine, a hundred years before Communism was a force to be reckoned with, wrote his brilliant legal generalization, that `` the progress of society is from status to contract ''.

In working out the practical legal conclusions President Waters was not thinking only of this pilot project, for it is planned to duplicate this program or system in other builder developments nationally.

My object, rather, is to alert you to an aspect or two of the affair that could have the gravest implications for you, far beyond the legal sanctions society might inflict.