amputation
Sign in to saveAmputation 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
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Amputation is the removal of a limb or other body part, which can happen due to injury, disease, or surgical procedures performed to control pain or prevent serious conditions like gangrene or cancer. It matters because it's a significant medical intervention that can preserve health or life, though it also represents a major change to a person's physical functioning and quality of life.
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- Amputation
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- An amputee running with a blade prosthetic
- Medical condition.complications
- Phantom limb syndrome
- Medical condition.causes
- Trauma or intentional as part of surgery and sometimes corporal punishment
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32 sectionsContents
- Types
- Leg
- Arm
- Other
- Self-amputation
- Urgent
- Causes
- Circulatory disorders
- Neoplasm
- Trauma
- Congenital anomalies
- Infection
- Frostbite
- Athletic performance
- Criminal penalties
- Surgery
- Method
- Post-operative management
- Trauma
- Causes
- Treatment
- Epidemiology
- Prevention
- Prognosis
- Etymology
- Notable cases
- Without prosthesis
- With prosthesis
- Other
- See also
- References
- Further reading
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 terrorism; it may also occur as a war injury. In some cultures and religions, minor amputations or mutilations are considered a ritual accomplishment. When done by a person, the person executing the amputation is an amputator. The oldest evidence of this practice comes from a skeleton found buried in Liang Tebo cave, East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo dating back to at least 31,000 years ago, where it was done when the amputee was a young child. A prosthesis or a bioelectric replantation restores sensation of the amputated limb.
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