Medical Term:
amputation
Pronunciation: am′pyū-tā′shŭn
Definition:
- The severing of a limb or part of a limb, the breast, or other projecting part.
- In dentistry, removal of the root of a tooth, or of the pulp, or of a nerve root or ganglion; a modifying adjective is therefore used (pulp amputation; root amputation).
[L. amputatio, fr. am-puto, pp. -atus, to cut around, prune]
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