Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Amputation performed a second time on a limb a part of which has previously been removed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Surg.) The second of two amputations performed upon the same member.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun surgery A second
amputation performed upon the samemember .
Etymologies
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re- + amputation
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Examples
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PROFESSOR STEPHEN SMITH in his clinical lectures at Bellevue and in his Operative Surgery in 1874 stated that on account of sloughing of the inner-posterior flap after Syme's method of disarticulation at the ankle-joint as then performed, the necessity for reamputation was three per cent. greater than after any other amputation.
With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914
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Routine angiograms. reamputation at the optimum level. e.
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Routine angiograms. reamputation at the optimum level. e.
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