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What's Amputation?
Amputation is the act of surgical removal of all or part of a limb, or the loss of a limb through trauma.
What is amputation in medical terms?
Amputation means taking a limb off.
What determines the place of amputation?
The goal of the surgeon is to find the place where healing is most likely to be complete, while allowing the maximum amount of limb to remain for effective rehabilitation.
What alternatives are there to limb salvage therapy?
amputation of the limb becomes the only alternative treatment.
What is guillotine amputation?
Where the limb is sheared completely through
What's the definition of Amputation?
Amputation is removing of any limb whether it be due to trauma, disease, or surgery
What do hispitals do with severed limbs?
When an amputation occurs as a result of cancer or other illness, studies will be done on the limb to determine pathology. If the result of the amputation, the limb is put in an incinerator and burned.
What may be the risks when amputation is not performed in case of limb infection?
When amputation is not performed in the case of limb infection there are a number of risks. The main risk is that the infection will spread further than the infected limb and that this may become life threatening.
Can you write a sentence using the word amputation?
Yes, I can. "Andrew underwent amputation due to the severe infection in his leg." "Amputation is the removal of a body limb."
What is the definition of amputation?
To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils., To cut off (a limb or projecting part of the body)
What is the procedure to remove a limb when a peripheral vascular disease occurs?
Amputation.
What is a traumatic amputation?
Traumatic amputation is the accidental severing of some or all of a body part. A complete amputation totally detaches a limb or appendage from the rest of the body. In a partial amputation, some soft tissue remains attached to the site.
