(v. t.) To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils.
(v. t.) To cut off (a limb or projecting part of the body)
Example Sentences:
(1) Even so, amputation of fifteen extremities and four other major excisions were required in twelve patients.
(2) The results suggest that RPE cannot be used reliably as a surrogate for direct pulse measurement in exercise training of persons with acute dysvascular amputations.
(3) Diabetic retinopathy (an index of microangiopathy) and absence of peripheral pulses, amputation, or history of myocardial infarction, stroke, or transient ischemic attacks (as evidence of macroangiopathy) caused surprisingly little increase in relative risk for cardiovascular death.
(4) Staplers were used and therefore the choice between resection or amputation was determined by the degree of loco-regional infiltration of the neoplasm.
(5) Between the 3rd and 4th week following amputation, the first fully differentiated striated muscle cells appear, and in the 6th week myogenic differentiation extends throughout the regenerate.
(6) Cooling of the necrotic limb with the application of a tourniquet and general nonoperative treatment were conducted in preparation for amputation.
(7) Twenty-three cases were reviewed with an ultimate amputation rate of 61% (22% primary, 39% delayed).
(8) In the group of 25 patients with critical ischaemia there were three operative deaths and in 10 the graft subsequently occluded, precipitating an amputation.
(9) Of these, twenty-five were selected for hemipelvectomy and thirty-two, for non-amputative procedures.
(10) Blastemas implanted with 2 dorsal root ganglia and simultaneously denervated 14 days after amputation exhibited control levels of cell cycle activity 6 days later, as measured by 3H-thymidine pulse labeling.
(11) Early biopsy of suspicious lesions followed by amputation of the digit in those proving positive is the treatment of choice.
(12) Twenty-three unique causal pathways to diabetic limb amputation were identified.
(13) The synthesis of flagellar proteins after deflagellation is defective only in gametic cells; vegetative cells of these mutants are capable of flagellar protein synthesis after flagellar amputation.
(14) The prognosis after interscapulothoracic amputation depends upon the primary malignant disease.
(15) During a 10-year period 104 patients (mean age 72 years) had 106 through-knee amputations.
(16) The other metastasis was removed by amputation 4 years prior to the nephrectomy.
(17) Acute ischaemia of the lower leg caused by arterial thrombosis often leads to amputation.
(18) The anatomical relationships of the terminal branch of posterior interosseous nerve have been studied in 57 cadaver and amputation specimens.
(19) Patients with all three risk factors should be considered for early amputation.
(20) Two patients are described: one with prosthetization in 1982 with aorta prosthesis because of aortic valvular defect and a female patient with lupus eythematodes disseminata and severe organ disorders resulting from that (cardiac, renal, amputation of the left arm).
Disarticulate
Definition:
(v. t.) To sunder; to separate, as joints.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the primary amputation occurred after the age of 12 years or when disarticulation was carried out, revisions were unnecessary.
(2) Nodular lung metastases occurred in a small number of animals long after the early radical disarticulation of a tumor-bearing leg.
(3) Tibial aplasia is best treated by disarticulation and early mobilization.
(4) Fourteen freshly disarticulated knee specimens were studied to assess the usefulness of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in the detection and correct staging of patellar chondral lesions.
(5) Amputation or major disarticulation (139 cases) gave corresponding survival rates of 45% and 29%.
(6) Hip disarticulation can be performed with low mortality rates in selected patients.
(7) Three types of microcycle conidiation were seen among progeny of N. crassa Vickramam A x N. crassa a wild-type: (1) multinucleate blastoconidia produced by apical budding and septation, (2) multinucleate arthroconidia produced by holothallic septation and disarticulation of cells, and (3) uninucleate microconidia produced directly from conidiogenous cells of the germlings.
(8) He reported this was his second total femur replacement and made passing reference to his first such case, noting only that it had been undertaken in a desperate effort to avert a hip disarticulation.
(9) After radical hip disarticulation, follow up pathologic studies of the disarticulated limb showed the tumor to be confined to the anterior compartment of the left thigh without extracompartmental extension.
(10) Hip disarticulation, especially in patients with peripheral vascular disease, has been associated with high morbidity and mortality rates.
(11) Interscapulothoracic amputation, disarticulation of the hip and hemipelvectomy were performed relatively seldom in the past.
(12) What killed the hominids remains unclear, but considering the association of originally disarticulated bones of such hydraulically distinct types as phalanges and maxillae, it is very likely that they died and partially rotted at or very near this site.
(13) To avoid the severe mutilation of a hip disarticulation and to improve limb-fitting, a method of partial limb preservation is proposed.
(14) Significant improvement over standard knee disarticulation or distal above-knee amputation can be achieved.
(15) Thus, disarticulation of ossicles can be localized precisely, and fixation of the head of the malleus can be differentiated from stapes fixation.
(16) The results of this case suggest that preservation of the mandibular condyle for lateral fixation of the bone graft is superior to disarticulation of the temporomandibular joint in terms of cosmetic and functional outcomes.
(17) The major features are congenital disarticulation and congenital amputation associated with various orofacial deficits.
(18) A combined extra- and intralaryngeal method of submucosal exenteration of the larynx and arytenoidectomy on one half, and cordopexy and disarticulation of the arytenoid was carried out on 30 patients.
(19) Three cohorts of patients who had had either a limb-sparing procedure, an above-the-knee amputation, or disarticulation of the hip were compared.
(20) The patient has been followed for five years after disarticulation without developing evidence of distant metastasis.