amputation

See also Amputation

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

amputate +‎ -ion

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

amputation (plural amputations)

1. surgical removal of all or part of a limb, etc.
2. the loss of a limb, etc. through trauma

See also

• acrotomophilia
• apotemnophilia
• apotemnophobia

Translations

surgical removal of a limb

Arabic: بتر (ar) (batr) m., قطع (ar) (qaT3) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 截肢 (cmn) (jiézhī), 切斷 (cmn), 切断 (cmn) (qiēduàn) Esperanto: amputado (eo) Finnish: amputaatio (fi) French: amputation (fr) f. German: Amputation (de) f. Haitian Creole: anpitasyon

Hebrew: כריתה (he) (krita) f. Japanese: 切断 (ja) (せつだん, setsudan) Russian: ампутация (ru) (amputácija) f. Serbo-Croatian: ампутација (sh) f., amputacija (sh) f. Spanish: amputación (es) f. Swedish: amputation (sv)

loss of limb

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɑ̃.py.ta.sjɔ̃/, X-SAMPA: /A~.py.ta.sjO~/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɔ̃
• Homophone: amputations

Noun

amputation f. (plural amputations)

1. amputation