amputation

See also: Amputation

English

Etymology

From Middle French amputation, from Latin amputatio.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

amputation (countable and uncountable, plural amputations)

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

Translations

surgical removal of a limb

• Arabic: بَتْر (ar) m (batr), قَطْع (ar) m (qaṭʕ)
• Catalan: amputació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 截肢 (zh) (jiézhī), 切斷／切断 (zh) (qiēduàn), 切断 (zh) (qiēduàn)

• Czech: amputace (cs) f
• Esperanto: amputado
• Finnish: amputaatio (fi)
• French: amputation (fr) f
• Galician: amputación (gl) f
• German: Amputation (de) f
• Haitian Creole: anpitasyon
• Hebrew: כריתה f (krita)
• Hungarian: amputálás (hu)
• Italian: amputazione (it) f
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• Japanese: 切断 (ja) (せつだん, setsudan)
• Maori: poronga
• Navajo: atsʼáozʼaʼ kʼégéésh
• Polish: amputacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: amputação (pt) f
• Romanian: amputare (ro) f, amputație (ro) f
• Russian: ампута́ция (ru) f (amputácija)
• Sardinian:

  Gallurese Sardinian: mutzatura

• Serbo-Croatian: ампутација f, amputacija (sh) f
• Spanish: amputación (es) f
• Swedish: amputation (sv)
• Tagalog: paggapong

loss of limb

• Maori: poronga
• Portuguese: amputação (pt) f
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• Tagalog: pagkagapong

See also

• acrotomophilia
• apotemnophilia
• apotemnophobia

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.py.ta.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔ̃
• Homophone: amputations

Noun

amputation f (plural amputations)

1. amputation

Further reading

• “amputation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.