amputate

After several months of treatment, zoo officials said the decision was made to amputate Crimson’s leg.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

Why would someone want to amputate healthy limbs?

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

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

I’m sure they offered him some artificial replacement, like they did Peeta when they had to amputate his lower leg, but I guess he didn’t take it.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

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

Etherized by the fascinations of pleasure, we are often unconscious of pain while the devil amputates the fingers, the feet and hands, or even the arms and legs of our character.

From Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power by Orison Swett Marden

The surgeon who amputates a limb, in order to save the life of his patient, acts upon the same principle.

From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Albert Taylor Bledsoe

A critically endangered roloway monkey has given birth only months after a pioneering operation spared her from having her foot amputated.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026

Archival discoveries, including a long-forgotten 19th-century autobiography, are changing how historians understand Shadrack Byfield, an English veteran of the War of 1812 who buried his own amputated arm and later created a custom prosthesis.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

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

The Italian had both his legs amputated after a motor racing accident in 2001 at the Lausitzring track in Germany.

From BBC ● May 2, 2026

When she begins describing his amputated leg, a tear trickles down my face against my will.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez

Once serious infection sets in, amputating a foot or limb may be the only option to save a patient’s life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026

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

Later, doctors recommended amputating his left leg, his mother said.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2022

For several days, it was uncertain whether he would live, and doctors contemplated amputating his arm.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann