Amputation/Definition

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In medicine, removal of a limb or other appendage or outgrowth of the body (National Library of Medicine; usually a controlled operating room procedure but sometimes a heroic field procedure to free a victim from entrapment; term used figuratively to refer to breaking all ties to a subordinate

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