English words for '(surgery) That involves amputation'
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prefix
- Removal, amputation.
- Not, opposite.
- Furthest in position
- (biochemistry) An apoenzyme: an enzyme without its cofactor; associated apoproteins.
- Different, distinct.
- (organic chemisty) Derived from, or related to.
- Away from, outward, or apart in direction.
- Distant, far from, or apart in position.
- Exterior, outside of.
- To carry forth, to do.
- (astronomy) Apoapsis: the point of a body's elliptical orbit about the system's centre of mass where the distance between the body and the centre of mass is at its maximum.
- From, coming from.
- Disjoint, separate.
- (biochemistry) Lacking a metallic unit.
- Lacking, without, scant.
noun
- (colloquial, countable) Clipping of amputee.
- (colloquial, countable) Clipping of ampoule.
- (colloquial, countable) Clipping of ampersand.
- (colloquial, uncountable) Clipping of ampicillin.
- (colloquial, uncountable) Clipping of amphetamine.
- (colloquial, countable) Clipping of amplifier.
- (colloquial, countable) Clipping of ampere.
- the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
verb
noun
- (by extension) similar amputations above the knee, and on the arms.
- (surgery) A type of below-the-knee amputation, which reconstructs agonist-antagonist myoneural interfaces that are left hanging unpaired in traditional amputations; to preserve normal nerve signaling between muscle and brain; reducing incidences of phantom limb syndrome.
noun
- (surgery) The surgical removal of a body part, an organ, or especially a tumor; the removal of an organ function; amputation.
- (geology) The removal of a glacier by melting and evaporation; the lowering of a land surface by any of several means, as in wind erosion or mass wasting.
- (meteorology) The depletion of surface snow and ice from a spacecraft or meteorite through melting and evaporation caused by aerodynamic heating.
- surgical removal of a body part or tissue
- the erosive process that reduces the size of glaciers
noun
- (medicine) A surgical operation.
- A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
- (uncountable) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.
- A particular method for performing a task.
- (computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task, but does not return a value.
- The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
- a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings
- a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
- a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program
- a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
verb
- To perform invasive surgery.
- (of the sun, moon or stars) To become obscured by clouds.
- To begin or become involved in some activity.
- To share in part of a project's or plan's duties or costs.
- (of a fact or concept) To become understood or accepted.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, in.
- to come or go into
verb
noun
noun
- a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
- (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods
- activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)
- a planned activity involving many people performing various actions
- the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.)
- a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
- (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)
- a business especially one run on a large scale
- (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
- the state of being in effect or being operative
- process or manner of functioning or operating
- (countable) A planned undertaking.
- (countable, medicine) A surgical procedure.
- (uncountable) The method or practice by which actions are done.
- (computing, logic, mathematics, countable) A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
- (military, countable) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm).
- (mathematics, more formally, countable) A function which maps zero or more (but typically two) operands to a single output value.
- (uncountable) The act or process of operating (verb): agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
- (countable) A business or organization.
- (uncountable) The method by which a device performs its function.
noun
- a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
- the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures
- a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted
- a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations
- (British) A doctor's office; a clinic.
- (by extension, figurative) Drastic changes made to anything.
- (British) Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic.
- (medicine, usually uncountable) The act or process involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body; an instance of this process (a procedure).
- (topology) The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.
- (British) A medical practitioner’s office hours.
- (finance, bankruptcy, slang) A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
- A room or department where surgery is performed.
- (medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
noun
- the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- The act of cutting into a substance.
- (soccer) A cut-back
- A cut, especially one made by a scalpel or similar medical tool in the context of surgical operation; the scar resulting from such a cut.
noun
- the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
- one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
- a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class
- (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
- a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon
- a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people
- a small army unit usually having a special function
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- a segment of a citrus fruit
- a specialized division of a large organization
- a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope
- a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
- a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately
- a land unit equal to 1 square mile
- A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
- (surgery, colloquial) Ellipsis of Caesarean section.
- (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- (Philippines, education) A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year.
- (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
- (topology) A function that generalizes the notion of the graph of a function; formally, a continuous right inverse to the projection map of a fiber bundle.
- A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
- (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- An act or instance of cutting.
- (sciences) thin section, a thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- (generalizing the topology sense in a different way, sheaf theory) An object which is defined by analogy with sections of fiber bundles but in a more general setting (that of sheaves). Formally, an element of the image of an open set under the action of a (pre-)sheaf.
- (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
- (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
- (US, Canada, law and land surveying) Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadian surveys and American land grants and legal property descriptions.
- (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
- The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- (technology) Angle section, L-section, angle iron, steel angle, slotted angle.
- (archaeology) Archeological section; vertical plane and cross-section of the ground to view its profile and stratigraphy; part of an archeological sequence.
- (generalizing the topology sense, algebra, category theory) A right inverse of a morphism in some category
verb
- divide into segments
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
- (medicine) To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To commit (a person) to a hospital for mental health treatment as an involuntary patient. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
noun
- (colloquial, countable) Clipping of amputee.
- (colloquial, countable) Clipping of ampoule.
- (colloquial, countable) Clipping of ampersand.
- (colloquial, uncountable) Clipping of ampicillin.
- (colloquial, uncountable) Clipping of amphetamine.
- (colloquial, countable) Clipping of amplifier.
- (colloquial, countable) Clipping of ampere.
- the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
verb
noun
- (by extension) similar amputations above the knee, and on the arms.
- (surgery) A type of below-the-knee amputation, which reconstructs agonist-antagonist myoneural interfaces that are left hanging unpaired in traditional amputations; to preserve normal nerve signaling between muscle and brain; reducing incidences of phantom limb syndrome.
noun
- (surgery) The surgical removal of a body part, an organ, or especially a tumor; the removal of an organ function; amputation.
- (geology) The removal of a glacier by melting and evaporation; the lowering of a land surface by any of several means, as in wind erosion or mass wasting.
- (meteorology) The depletion of surface snow and ice from a spacecraft or meteorite through melting and evaporation caused by aerodynamic heating.
- surgical removal of a body part or tissue
- the erosive process that reduces the size of glaciers
noun
- (medicine) A surgical operation.
- A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
- (uncountable) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.
- A particular method for performing a task.
- (computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task, but does not return a value.
- The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
- a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings
- a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
- a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program
- a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
noun
- a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
- (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods
- activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)
- a planned activity involving many people performing various actions
- the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.)
- a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
- (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)
- a business especially one run on a large scale
- (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
- the state of being in effect or being operative
- process or manner of functioning or operating
- (countable) A planned undertaking.
- (countable, medicine) A surgical procedure.
- (uncountable) The method or practice by which actions are done.
- (computing, logic, mathematics, countable) A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
- (military, countable) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm).
- (mathematics, more formally, countable) A function which maps zero or more (but typically two) operands to a single output value.
- (uncountable) The act or process of operating (verb): agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
- (countable) A business or organization.
- (uncountable) The method by which a device performs its function.
noun
- a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
- the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures
- a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted
- a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations
- (British) A doctor's office; a clinic.
- (by extension, figurative) Drastic changes made to anything.
- (British) Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic.
- (medicine, usually uncountable) The act or process involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body; an instance of this process (a procedure).
- (topology) The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.
- (British) A medical practitioner’s office hours.
- (finance, bankruptcy, slang) A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
- A room or department where surgery is performed.
- (medicine) The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
noun
- the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- The act of cutting into a substance.
- (soccer) A cut-back
- A cut, especially one made by a scalpel or similar medical tool in the context of surgical operation; the scar resulting from such a cut.
noun
- the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
- one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
- a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class
- (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
- a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon
- a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people
- a small army unit usually having a special function
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- a segment of a citrus fruit
- a specialized division of a large organization
- a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope
- a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
- a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately
- a land unit equal to 1 square mile
- A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
- (surgery, colloquial) Ellipsis of Caesarean section.
- (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- (Philippines, education) A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year.
- (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
- (topology) A function that generalizes the notion of the graph of a function; formally, a continuous right inverse to the projection map of a fiber bundle.
- A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
- (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- An act or instance of cutting.
- (sciences) thin section, a thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- (generalizing the topology sense in a different way, sheaf theory) An object which is defined by analogy with sections of fiber bundles but in a more general setting (that of sheaves). Formally, an element of the image of an open set under the action of a (pre-)sheaf.
- (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
- (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
- (US, Canada, law and land surveying) Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadian surveys and American land grants and legal property descriptions.
- (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
- The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- (technology) Angle section, L-section, angle iron, steel angle, slotted angle.
- (archaeology) Archeological section; vertical plane and cross-section of the ground to view its profile and stratigraphy; part of an archeological sequence.
- (generalizing the topology sense, algebra, category theory) A right inverse of a morphism in some category
verb
- divide into segments
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
- (medicine) To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To commit (a person) to a hospital for mental health treatment as an involuntary patient. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
verb
- To perform invasive surgery.
- (of the sun, moon or stars) To become obscured by clouds.
- To begin or become involved in some activity.
- To share in part of a project's or plan's duties or costs.
- (of a fact or concept) To become understood or accepted.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, in.
- to come or go into