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What are the gender differences in phantom limb syndrome?
There is no known association with age, gender, or which limb is amputated.
What is the condition known as phantom limb?
It occurs when a person feels pin in a limb that has been amputated.
Do they remove limb when you get gangrene?
Not necessarily. It can be treated. In many cases though, the limb may have to be amputated. Each case is different.
What is phantom limb?
the term for abnormal sensations perceived from a previously amputated limb. The abnormal sensations may be painful or nonpainful in nature.
What does the medical term 'Phantom Limb' refer to?
Phantom Limb syndrome is the perception of sensations, usually including pain, in a limb that has been amputated. Patients with this conditions experience the limb as if it were still attached to the body.
Is it possible to feel itch or pain in a missing limb which has been amputated?
No.. unless your a chicken?!
The first apothecaries were established by the Romans in Rome?
Yes, they mostly used herbs and things, but they didn't knock you out if you were to have a limb amputated!
What is limb pit?
In a recent visit to Gettysburg battefield, the park tour guides refered to the "limb pits" that were dug behind the structures used as hospitals to dispose of the amputated limbsof injured soldiers.
What is an amputated limb called?
it is called whatever it is. If it is an amputation below the knee, then the body part is called the lower leg. Its just that simple. It is what it is.
What wounds smell like almonds?
Gangrenous ones, seek medical attention immediately. The limb or didget may haveto be amputated.
How long has phantom limb syndrome been recognized?
Phantom limb syndrome was first described by Ambroise Pare in 1552. Pare, a French surgeon, noticed this phenomenon in soldiers who felt pain in their amputated limbs.
What do doctors do with left over amputated limbs?
amputated limbs are taken to a hospital's pathology lab. They are kept in a freezer until collected for cremation and proper disposal. Patients can also choose to have the limb sent to a funeral home for cremation or burial.
