amputee
mpj ti noun someone who has had a limb or part of a limb removed in a surgical operation
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Amputee
To cut off (all or part of a limb or digit of the body), as by surgery.
Anaplasty
Reconstruction or restoration, esp. by plastic surgery, of a lost or injured part.
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A paraphilic fixation of the stigmatic/eligibilic type in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to and contingent on being oneself an amputee.
The upper or lower extremity amputee depends heavily upon muscles to control the prosthesis. The therapist will instruct the amputee in muscle strengthening exercises.
The long-term outcome for amputees has improved due to better understanding of the management of traumatic amputation, early emergency and critical care management, new surgical techniques, early rehabilitation, and new prosthetic designs.
A sling may also be used by amputees or people with birth defects, to keep the impacted limb out of the way. Especially when learning how to use a prosthetic device, the muscles of the limb are often heavily strained.
Phantom limb pain affects between 50 and 80% of all amputees. The occurrence of phantom limb pain is similar in males and females. Phantom limb pain also occurs independently of age, level or side of amputation.
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For example, physical therapy is usually used to train lower-extremity amputees.
This phenomenon is known as phantom limb and accounts describing it date back to the 1800s. Similarly, many amputees are frequently aware of severe pain in the absent limb.
And unlike a typical amputation, patients don't experience any phantom pain, the aches and other sensations that amputees sometimes feel from the limb that's no longer there.
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Often when you get a cast put on your leg or foot you will be required to use crutches for a period of time. Crutches may also be used by amputees, and people with other disabilities that make walking difficult.
all of a body part enclosed by skin, for example, removal of part of a finger or an entire finger would be termed an amputation. Removal of an appendix would not be termed amputation. A person who has undergone an amputation is called an amputee.
The device is usually used for the hands and feet, but there has been a device created for the axillae (armpit) area and for the stump region of amputees.
 See also: Surgery, Injury, Injuries, Rehabilitation, Habilitation
  
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