Amputation

Amputation is the removal of a limb or other body part by trauma, medical illness, or surgery. As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene. In some cases, it is carried out on individuals as a preventive surgery for such problems. A special case is that of congenital amputation, a congenital disorder, where fetal limbs have been cut off by constrictive bands. In some countries, judicial amputation is currently used to punish people who commit crimes. Amputation has also been used as a tactic in war and acts of terr

thumb|right|upright|Theseus and Procrustes, Attic [[red-figure neck-amphora, 470–460 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Inv. 2325)]]

perception of painful and nonpainful phantom sensations that occur following the complete or partial loss of a limb

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chacma baboon, d. 1890

Acrotomophilia (from the Greek "having the top cut off"; from ' "extremity" and - from ' "I cut" and '' "love") is a paraphilia in which an individual expresses strong sexual interest in amputees. It is a counterpart to apotemnophilia, the desire (although not necessarily sexual) to be'' an amputee.

condition in which a person experiences a permanent intention to have a physical disability

thumb|Man's hand showing yubitsume, with the upper two portions of the little finger having been removed or otoshimae is a Japanese ritual to atone for offenses to another, a way to be punished or to show sincere apology and remorse to another, by means of amputating portions of one's own little finger. In modern times, it is primarily performed by the yakuza, a collection of Japanese criminal organizations.

series of physical penalties in dynastic China

archaic Chinese method of execution

Replantation or reattachment is defined as the surgical reattachment of a body part (such as a finger, hand, arm, toe, foot, or leg) that has been completely cut from the body. Examples include reattachment of a partially or fully amputated finger, or reattachment of a kidney that has had an avulsion-type injury.

Ainhum (from Portuguese, ), also known as dactylolysis spontanea, is a painful constriction of the base of the fifth toe frequently followed by bilateral spontaneous autoamputation a few years later.

miracle produced in 1640, attributed to the Virgin Mary under her invocation of Nuestra Señora del Pilar, by which the young farmer's leg was returned to her after having been amputated two and a half years earlier

criminal offence consisting of the intentional maiming of another person