amputated
Example Sentences
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A critically endangered roloway monkey has given birth only months after a pioneering operation spared her from having her foot amputated.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
Archival discoveries, including a long-forgotten 19th-century autobiography, are changing how historians understand Shadrack Byfield, an English veteran of the War of 1812 who buried his own amputated arm and later created a custom prosthesis.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
The 17-year-old has since had her leg amputated, joining hundreds more Venezuelans who lost limbs during the devastating twin tremors on June 24.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
"It's half the size it was. It was amputated and half it it was shipped off…and a few years later it basically went to the tip," he added.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026
After the war, a man of twenty-three with an amputated arm, he’d left San Piedro without reluctance to attend school in Seattle.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
