How To Use Amputee In A Sentence
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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
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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
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My question is, I'm wondering if you support stem-cell research in hopes that they may produce new limbs for amputees.
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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.
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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
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Tonks's patients are joined by amputees, the shellshocked, the blinded, the wheelchairbound.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Amputees sometimes experience phantom limb sensations, feeling pain, itching or other impulses coming from limbs that no longer exist.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Some amputees are better able to form a mental image of the movement of a missing limb.
Times, Sunday Times
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He also happens to be a double amputee who lost his legs to frostbite.
Times, Sunday Times
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For weeks nurses tried to persuade him to overcome his reluctance to use a wheelchair and adapt to life as a double amputee.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not only does Sacco render brilliantly the crater-pocked streets of Gorazde, the faces of amputees in bombed-out hospitals, the uniforms of the Serb military, but he draws in detail the design on the package of the ubiquitous Drina cigarettes and the hairstyles of the girls he meets who ask him to bring Levi's 501s from Sarajevo.
Maus Culture
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That said, attacking a special olympian, a wheel chair bound amputee is probably counterproductive.
Archive 2008-04-01
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Pentru a început totul în afara este mare gay Xerxes , care este cortul este umplut cu amputees lesbiene.
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He added: 'I am in a room with another triple amputee and we have been talking about how we do things.
The Sun
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My palms were actually sweating the first time I typed 'amputee' into a search engine," one wannabe wrote to me.
A New Way to Be Mad
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Once amputees worldwide began to regularly jog, run, and jump, it became apparent that the lack of shock absorption in artificial limbs was a limiting factor.
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Thus the functional disadvantage is less for child amputees.
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In 2008 he became the first double amputee to run a marathon in under three hours.
Times, Sunday Times
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Carl Elliott, the author of Better Than Well, talks about amputee wannabes, Extreme Makeover, and the meta-ethics of bioethics
The Drug Pushers
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At this time of year, I get a sensation comparable to that experienced by an amputee who remains attached to a long-departed limb.
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Comparing Olympic hopeful sprinter Oscar Pistorius, a double-leg amputee, to ultrarunner Amy Palmiero-Winters, a single-leg amputee, is impossible, says the co-author of a study that found Pistorius 'light and springy prosthetics enhanced sprint speeds by 15%-30%.
Running down a dream: Leg amputee makes U.S. track team
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Less common than phantom limb pain, which is experienced by 50 to 78 percent of amputees, phantom eye pain develops in only about 30 percent of patients.
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As many as 70 per cent of amputees report phantom pain in limbs that are no longer there and conventional painkillers are often ineffective.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was the first triple amputee to take it on.
The Sun
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A tiny, wood and straw stilt hut, it stands close to the ground to allow easy access for amputees.
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Also, can amputees expect advanced prosthetic legs from a free healthcare system?
The Sun
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Hanks is developing an education program that would operate through churches to teach pastors and congregants that amputees and other people with disabilities can work and be productive.
New amputees worry about life ahead
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His feature-length art films, lavishly shot and propped and edited, veer from images of a classic-car demolition derby in the Chrysler Building, to a gorgeous amputee slicing potatoes with her knife-edged prostheses, to melted Vaseline pouring down a chute at the Guggenheim Museum.
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When amputation is necessary, rehabilitation of the amputee is an important adjunct to management.
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Some of the bronzes are caryatidlike figures with limbs missing, and it is not at all clear whether they are intended as representations of amputees or references to the damage that time metes out to antique sculpture.
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Some amputees are better able to form a mental image of the movement of a missing limb.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both were amputees and therefore wear artificial limbs.
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Dancing With The Stars has backflipping amputees and collapsing old ladies, while Strictly Come Dancing has neither.
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As the number of amputees grew, so did improvements to artificial limbs.
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It is this concrete fact, this reality, which gives the parachuting artificial limbs, the madly scurrying amputees, its terrifying metaphoric power.
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How natural is it that a double amputee should be running times for the 400m which put him within half a second of Olympic qualification?
Times, Sunday Times
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Every orthopedist, ward nurse, therapist and limb-fitter should take the responsibility for rehabilitation of amputees.
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In 2004, he conducted a study of 52 people who identified as amputee-wannabes.
Cutting Desire
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They will go down in history as the first team with amputees to reach the North Pole.
Times, Sunday Times
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I learn the word amputee and hobble around, pretending I am wounded in the jungles of Vietnam.
The Memory Palace
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For example, your pain could be similar to the phantom pain some amputees feel in their amputated limbs.
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As many as 70 per cent of amputees report phantom pain in limbs that are no longer there and conventional painkillers are often ineffective.
Times, Sunday Times
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KELLIE LIM, TRIPLE AMPUTEE: Well at the age of 8 I contracted meningeal toxemia which is the much feared bacterial meningitis.
CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2007
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They create artificial limbs and calipers for amputees and polio victims, enabling them to live full, normal lives.
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Having said this, though, would the brain perceive a ‘phantom body’, analogous to the phantom limbs that amputees feel?
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Then there was the year he chose a double amputee as one of his models.
The Sun
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We saw each other again at the finish line and the amputee introduced himself as Jim Bonney.
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It capped what has been an incredible year for the 24-year-old double amputee.
The Sun
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It just so happens that these hospitalized young men are also cancer patients and amputees.
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I have still one question: at your profile, the 'amputee' keyword appear.
Rich
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Later, he looked for ways to treat the so-called phantom limb pain that often torments amputees.
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I know all too well how vital a well-made and comfortable artificial limb is to an amputee.
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Another is now a triple amputee.
The Sun
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Some amputees are better able to form a mental image of the movement of a missing limb.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm learning a whole new vocabulary, a secret lexicon known only to amputees and prosthetists.
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Like Passawe, he is a victim of war, but he is doubly stigmatized: as an amputee, he is often assumed to have fought in the conflict, though he has never held a gun; as a beggar and slum-dweller, he is subject to endless harassment.
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There are 12 surviving triple amputees.
Times, Sunday Times
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And they plan to be the first amputees to reach the Pole.
The Sun
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That's how stroke victims learn to talk and walk again, and how amputees learn to use their remaining arm as well as they once used the lost one.
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KELLIE LIM, TRIPLE AMPUTEE: Well at the age of 8 I contracted meningeal toxemia which is the much feared bacterial meningitis.
CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2007
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The people he helps range from triple amputees to cancer sufferers.
The Sun
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He added: 'I am in a room with another triple amputee and we have been talking about how we do things.
The Sun
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D. TRANSTIBIAL AMPUTEES: STEP OVER STEP: When ascending stairs, the transtibial amputee who does not have the ability to dorsiflex his foot/ankle assembly must generate a stronger concentric contraction of the knee and hip extensors in order to successfully transfer body weight over the prosthetic limb.
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The main problem in Chechnya today is how to find artificial limbs for amputees.
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On Hampstead Heath the Corporation of London is considering the closure of the open-air bathing ponds which have succoured swimmers, amputees and mild exhibitionists since the 1860s.
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Most amputees continue to feel sensations after losing a limb.
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I'm learning a whole new vocabulary, a secret lexicon known only to amputees and prosthetists.
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the amputee's illusion of a phantom limb
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Obviously there is less reclassification chance for an athlete whose impairment will not change — such as an amputee.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some members of the population, such as amputees, will never be able to use certain recognition systems, leading to possible social exclusion.
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Our tablemate Bob, not on our tour, had his wallet boosted by a group including an amputee.
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The team is made up of sailors who are paraplegics or amputees or blind.
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The aim was to see if the amputees could use the electrodes to move an artificial hand.
Times, Sunday Times
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On Hampstead Heath the Corporation of London is considering the closure of the open-air bathing ponds which have succoured swimmers, amputees and mild exhibitionists since the 1860s.
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He added: 'I am in a room with another triple amputee and we have been talking about how we do things.
The Sun
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Next month they will attempt to become the first group including amputees to reach the North Pole unaided.
Times, Sunday Times
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The multi-talented Pretoria athlete, competing as a leg amputee was trying to recover from a twisted ankle to his good leg during Sunday's competition.
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As many as 70 per cent of amputees report phantom pain in limbs that are no longer there and conventional painkillers are often ineffective.
Times, Sunday Times
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Look at the reichwing attacks on Murtha questioning his bravery and the shameful treatment given Max Cleland-a triple amputee from the Vietnam war by Axby Chambliss-a draft dodger.
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In tests, four amputees were able to program their artificial arms with sets of muscle signals for executing complex feats such as opening the door of a microwave oven.
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I am paralyzed here ! I am a fucking amputee!
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In cases such as yours," they began, "let's speak frankly, in cases of ... amputation, it is not uncommon to encounter the selfsame itches, burns, ticklishness shooting as before from the direction of the ... amputee.
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One third of amputees lose the opposite foot in 5 years.
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I say slainte Ronan - you're Amputee of the Week!
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A tiny, wood and straw stilt hut, it stands close to the ground to allow easy access for amputees.
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So, since a woman of his age would not be a very good bet for childbearing, he is looking for an amputee woman 10 to 20 years his junior.
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He blackmails a doctor to perform a drastic surgery, leaving him a true amputee.
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I'm learning a whole new vocabulary, a secret lexicon known only to amputees and prosthetists.
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Also patron of amputees, basketweavers, gravediggers, and hermits; he is invoked against eczema.
