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Amputation
Amputation is the removal of a body extremity. Amputations are caused by trauma, loss of circulation, or surgical procedure.
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What diseases or conditions may lead to amputation?
hardening of the arteries arterial embolism impaired circulation as a complication of diabetes mellitus gangrene severe frostbite Raynaud's disease Buerger's disease
Why may a person need to have a limb amputated?
The pain or feeling is known as "Phantom Pain" and is commonly reported by amputees. It's believed to be related to our body's electrical field - under Kirlian photography, plants that have had their leaves severed still show the outline of its bioelectric field after the piece has been cut and removed. Though the mechanism isn't fully understood, the pain signals to the brain from a severed limb or other injury are known to continue well after the area has apparently healed.
Some theories believe that the nerve being severed causes an overload in the electric signals to the brain, which continue to be sent by the nerve path to the brain after the limb is gone. Since the nerve pain originated in the limb, the brain signals make it seem like the pain is actually coming from the limb when in fact it's not.
Who was the first doctor to amputate a leg?
Amputation is a medical procedure used for hundreds of years to contain infection and remove diseased tissue. However, until about the early 1900s, it was very risky and extremely painful - there was no anesthetic, very little blood loss control and no antibiotics to control infection.
How many amputees are there in the world?
Approximately 1.9 million and growing at a rate of between 160,000-180,000 per year.
Does Suleka Mathew have a prosthetic leg in real life?
No. Suleka Mathew a.k.a. Bobbi only plays an amputee. She in real life has all her limbs.
How many Australian servicemen returned as amputees from ww1?
There were 26,094 Australian casualties at Gallipoli, but no record clearly indicates the number of amputees.
How many amputation were performed in the civil war?
17,245 different people had amputated arms, legs, and other stuff in WW1
What is the medical term meaning pertaining to the amputation of a finger?
In medical terminology there are many ways to refer to a limb, depending on the limb being discussed or if the subject is a general one and/or about arms and legs only. Some of the commonly used names for limbs and some of the roots, prefixes, and suffixes used to talk about them are:
Appendage or Appendicular refer to general things that "hang from" other things, such as referring to the arms or legs as appendages hanging from the main trunk of the body. It is also used to mean a supplemental/accessory part, such as a finger is an appendage of the hand. The Latin "appen" means "to hang upon," This is also the meaning of "appen-" when speaking of the appendix which hangs from the intestine. Interestingly, the "dix" refers to a finger. The appendix is a finger-like pouch hanging from the intestine.
Limb, which you used in the question, is a good term often used to refer in general to arms and legs. From Latin "limbus" for "edge".
They are also called Members. Member refers to a part of the whole, just like a member of a group. The leg or arm is a part of the whole body unless you dismember it. The prefix "dis-" means not, absent, remove, the opposite of, undo, or free from.
Digit for finger. Other components of words about fingers are: Dig-, digit-, -dactyl-, -dix, all refer to fingers and toes. Pterodactyl, for example, was used to describe the front feet of one type of dinosaur as having feather-like or wing-like "fingers" ("ptero"- is wing, feather, feather-like or wing-like in Greek).
Extremity is probably the most commonly used general word for arm or leg in US medical use and is usually further described as upper or lower extremity (abbreviated UE or LE) or can be right and left, as in RLE for right leg)
Brachi(o)- can be used as a part of a term to mean arm. For example brachial artery, the main artery in the arm, brachial plexus, a grouping of the nerves serving the arm.
Humer(o)- refers to the upper arm from the elbow to the shoulder, where the humerus bone is located.
Antecubital refers to the region in front of the elbow (where blood is often drawn for lab work). "Ante" means front, in front of, or before, cubital relates to the elbow or forearm.
Cubital Latin for elbow or forearm. (Also a unit of measure in Latin, cubit was equal to the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow, 43 to 56 cm.)
Genu- Knee, as in genuflect (kneel), "flect" refers to flexing or bending. If you bend your knees you will kneel or genuflect.
Chir(o)-, Cheir(o)- Hand in Greek. Chiropodist, originally a hand and foot doctor
Manu- Hand in Latin.
Ped-, Pes-, Pus-, Pod- Foot.
If you have a medical word and want to find a definition, but it is not in the medical dictionary as the whole word, a way to find the meaning by breaking the word down into a prefix, suffix, or root word in Medical Terminology is to type in the pieces of the word (usually each syllable) that are combined to make the medical term, one at a time, into a medical dictionary (or browser) search box. Type them using a dash to show the position you found the piece in the word to indicate that you want a definition for the piece and not for a different word spelled the same. For example using the term Cholecystectomy, for the first syllable, type "Chole-" (gall = bile). In the middle of the word, is "-cyst-" for bladder. And for the last part, type -ectomy, meaning removal of. Cholecystectomy is the surgical removal of the gallbladder.
What is the average cost of leg amputations?
It depends on the sort of prosthetic, what sort of amputation, and the material that the prosthetic is made of. This would be a good question for your doctor. Transradial and transtibial prostheses typically cost between US $6,000 and $8,000. Transfemoral and transhumeral prosthetics cost approximately twice as much with a range of $10,000 to $15,000 and can sometimes reach costs of $35,000. The cost of an artificial limb does recur because artificial limbs are usually replaced every 3-4 years due to wear and tear. In addition, if the artificial limb has fit issues, the limb must be replaced within several months. The i-Limb hand, manufactured by Touch Bionics of Scotland, went on sale on 18 July 2007 in Britain for £8,500 (U.S. $17,454)
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Why did so many limbs needed amputation in lister's time?
during that time, they didn't have antibiotics to kill infection. so in order to get rid or infections, they had to amputate the limb
You have to get help in caring for the handicapped person. A blind, double amputee should qualify for home health care, where a nurse and a nurses aid comes during the day to provide medical care, personal care (such as bathing, etc.), and the nurses aide can even do some light housekeeping in the patient's immediate area, such as changing bed sheets, etc. This would give you some much needed help, but a doctor will have to write the order for home health care. Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance pays for it, so that wouldn't be a financial burden for you. But in the meantime, ask family and friends to take turns taking care of the patient so you can get som much needed rest. You may even need to consider putting the patient in a nursing home. If you keep going on as you are, you will become physically, mentally and emotionally exhausted, and will get too sick to care for yourself or the handicapped person. So you need to reach out for all available services and help.
A good slogan might be, "Hand"le With Care"
