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Abstract
Loss of a limb or other bodily appendage by accidental injury.
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3 entry terms
- Amputation, Traumatic
- Amputations, Traumatic
- Traumatic Amputations
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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Indexing Annotation
by accident or injury: do not confuse with AMPUTATION (see AMPUTATION, SURGICAL), a surgical procedure; /surg: consider also REPLANTATION
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History Note
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- Amputation (1966-1971)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Traumatic Amputation. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000673. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000673
- Traumatic Amputation. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumatic_amputation
- Traumatic Amputation. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7835822