amputate

He did his best to amputate above the sickly parts in the hope of saving the patient’s life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

Not long after, she went through more procedures: one to amputate her damaged limb and another to cut through her neck to retrieve a fishing hook that had migrated to tissue outside the esophagus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026

She said the medical staff discussed whether to amputate her arm or fingers before deciding she should return to the UK due to the rising medical bills.

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2025

But the doctors in Gaza refused to amputate, hoping to save the foot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2024

“Before that, she had polio. Her right leg was shorter than her left. She wore long skirts to cover her legs. Eventually they had to amputate her right leg.”

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar

Bustamante insisted that a voter could not remove the ink and vote more than once "unless he amputates a finger, and if he does, I'll be delighted to let him vote two times, even ten."

From Time Magazine Archive

He gives them scene transplants or amputates a character or administers dialogue transfusions, but somehow these measures never restore these dramas to robust health.

From Time Magazine Archive

Flimsy characterization amputates the play just short of greatness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Is the surgeon guilty of wrong who amputates a limb to preserve life?

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by E. N. Elliott

He tries to kindle a fire When it's forty-five below; He aims to chop at a log And amputates his toe; He hobbles back to the shack And feebly cries out "yah"!

From Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by Various

The 17-year-old has since had her leg amputated, joining hundreds more Venezuelans who lost limbs during the devastating twin tremors on June 24.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

Relatives found Anderson Daniel Salcedo, 22, at Caracas's university hospital and alerted his mother, who immediately travelled to the Venezuelan capital, Reuters reported, only to find they had already amputated his legs.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

At a hospital in Caracas, doctors amputated his legs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Among those taken in are a blind swan, an eagle with an amputated wing and a stork that suffered a concussion during an air attack.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

In 1987, forced to spend a night in the open while descending from the 28,169-foot summit of Kanchenjunga, he froze his feet and had to have all his toes amputated.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

Instead of amputating her arm to stop the spread of cancer, as her doctors urged her to do, Milla turns to a severely restricted diet consisting primarily of juice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025

Procedures that have been performed by staff at Al Shifa under such circumstances have included amputating limbs and fingers, stitching up serious wounds, and treating serious burns, said Abu Selmeyah, without elaborating.

From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2023

A staph infection meant amputating her left foot below the knee in 2017.

From Washington Times ● May 4, 2023

In 2012, his right hand had become so badly infected following years of gout that it required amputating.

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2022

“Yeah, my big toe. If I wasn’t wearing shoes, they’d be amputating this toe sure as hell.”

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy