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US
/ˈæmpjəˈti/
]
[ UK /ˈæmpjuːtˌiː/ ]
[ UK /ˈæmpjuːtˌiː/ ]
NOUN
- someone who has had a limb removed by amputation
How To Use amputee In A Sentence
- In the research the hand was linked to the amputee's arm only by wire and actually lay on a nearby surface. Times, Sunday Times
- The advance could transform the lives of amputees, but also raises questions about potential future applications of the technology, which could include human enhancement. Times, Sunday Times
- My question is, I'm wondering if you support stem-cell research in hopes that they may produce new limbs for amputees.
- In the past few years he has turned his attention to achieving similar results for upper and lower limb amputees and has generated similar controversy.
- Most of the amputees, Kuniholm included, have elected to use simple, body-operated hooks whose basic technologies date back to World War I instead of the current generation of myoelectric arms that read muscle signals from electrodes on the skin. Move Over Prosthetic Arm | Impact Lab
- Tonks's patients are joined by amputees, the shellshocked, the blinded, the wheelchairbound. The Times Literary Supplement
- Amputees sometimes experience phantom limb sensations, feeling pain, itching or other impulses coming from limbs that no longer exist.
- He believes the technique could be developed within a decade to restore movement to a tetraplegic's hand or feeling to a prosthetic leg used by an amputee.
- Amy Winehouse 'remarries' Blake Fielder-Civil on Facebook - Telegraph. co.uk Calls for comic to quit after joke on forces 'amputees - Mirror. co.uk Popbitch
- Hey, you're talking to a girl who wrote about goalball - played by blind people - and sit-volleyball, played by amputees across a 4-foot-high net. Canada wins gold