How To Use Amputate In A Sentence
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Paul described how surgeons formed a new thumb on his right hand from the big toe on the foot that they had amputated hours earlier.
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He subsequently contracted gangrene and had one leg amputated below his knee.
Times, Sunday Times
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Church abuse cases: Mgr Scicluna speaks on need to 'amputate' to heal '
Timesofmalta.com
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She had grown so used to carrying Muffin around that she felt as if the vet had amputated a limb.
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Because of a genetic disorder called sacral agenesis, Siggins's legs were amputated when she was young.
Reality’s Believe It or Not
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Just two years ago, she had one of her legs amputated as a consequence of a rare form of cancer, but vowed it would be no bar to living a full life.
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It was winter; his feet had been frostbitten and had to be amputated.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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Her legs had been amputated above the knee, long ago, he assumed.
What Is Life?
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She had her leg amputated below the knee.
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The surgeon comes to look at Paul, who refuses to be chloroformed out of fear that they will amputate his leg.
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The Nutcracker — but not any of the chopped-down, bowdlerized, amputated versions pretending to be the real story.
In the dead of winter «
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He had to have one leg amputated above the knee.
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He has had surgeries to amputate a leg and stabilize his spine.
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He had his leg amputated at the hip.
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In 1941 he treated a young Canadian for frostbite, and had to amputate the man's gangrenous fingers.
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The victim refused to have his fingers amputated although he was given medical advice that failure to do so would result in lockjaw and his death.
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Her arm is so badly injured they will have to amputate.
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He had to have one leg amputated above the knee.
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I used starch when the client demanded it and made the creases sharp enough to amputate a limb.
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It compares with a surgeon going into an operating theatre without knowing whether he is going to remove an appendix or perform a lobotomy; and who knows, if he gets really inspired, he may amputate the patient's left leg.
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Page 7 for two or three days without any further attention to the wound, and the result was the flies "blowed" the amputated limb, and when I reached Alexandria City, some days later, the nurse who dressed the wound found that I was being eat up by the vermin.
A soldier's story : prison life and other incidents in the war of 1861-'65,
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He subsequently contracted gangrene and had one leg amputated below his knee.
Times, Sunday Times
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There had been a surgeon to amputate, plasma to compensate blood loss, a bed to lie down in.
THE DISPOSSESSED
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At least they weren't going to amputate, which had been his secret fear.
LOST SUMMER
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There was a complication and his leg became gangrenous and had to be amputated.
Times, Sunday Times
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The amputated arm lay on the grass near Haru, and when she finished, Haru turned around and wrapped the arm in sackcloth.
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The doctors were not yet certain that they would not have to amputate the leg.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Three fingers was crunched. Th 'dern doctor wanted t' amputate 'm, an' Bill, he raised a heluva row, I hear.
The Red Badge of Courage
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A ten-month-old boy has had his legs, arm and five digits amputated after contracting meningitis in Sheffield.
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The team has developed an ultrasensitive neural network that can pick up multiple nerve signals sent to muscles near the stump of an amputated arm.
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When we have a limb amputated, our neural map of that limb gradually fades away; and if we gain a body part, our neural map expands accordingly.
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There had been a surgeon to amputate, plasma to compensate blood loss, a bed to lie down in.
THE DISPOSSESSED
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On Wednesday, March 4, 2009, the Supreme Court of the United States rules in favor of the case of migraineur and musician Diana Levine, who had to have her arm amputated because the anti-nausea drug Don't Worry
Nutrition Frenzy
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At least they weren't going to amputate, which had been his secret fear.
LOST SUMMER
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The doctors were not yet certain that they would not have to amputate the leg.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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In the end they had to amputate his foot to free him from the wrecked car.
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Soon he will have his right leg amputated at the knee and replaced with a prosthetic limb.
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If tissue damage is severe, a health care provider may need to remove the tissue surgically or amputate the limb.
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Workers were told to tightly wrap the teat with an elastic band in order to "amputate" it.
New investigation reveals dairy's dark side
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We can measure his heart rhythms, take his blood pressure and even amputate a limb.
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To save his life, doctors amputated his legs.
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Avoir courage," Stewart said to an elderly man being transferred to a post-operation recovery ward after both legs were amputated, which is Creole for 'Have courage.
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fingers so badly frozen they had to be amputated
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Jade, who celebrates her tenth birthday on Sunday, was born with rare deformities and had her legs amputated in 1998.
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The doctors were not yet certain that they would not have to amputate the leg.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Furthermore, I hope that you've started in on the antibiotics because if you haven't, they'll eventually have to amputate.
CORMORANT
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The surgeries took 14 hours, and they wanted to amputate my right leg.
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Breeders argue that the tails will be poor, weak, easily damaged things, which will need to be amputated anyway, because they're sure to be injured.
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It was opened, but the phlegmonous process spread up to the shoulder, and it was opened in many places, and at last, under chloroform, the limb was amputated below the joint.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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He had his leg amputated and was fitted with an artificial limb.
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Although she had to have her leg amputated, she still feels as though she's got a phantom limb.
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After years of hearings and debates about the "invisible wounds of war" - the traumatic brain injuries and combat stress injuries inflicted in the Iraq and Afghanistan war zones - lawmakers met Thursday to focus on the visible wounds of war, such as amputated limbs and spinal cord injuries.
Air Force Times - News
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When gangrene set in, his foot had to be amputated.
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I said that - something about, ‘You have to amputate an infected limb for the patient to survive.’
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It was as though we were negotiating some oversized, sinuous arroyo in Utah's Canyonlands, awash with dry waterfalls down which we had to climb, jamming hands into cracks and levering weight on small footholds in free-climbing maneuvers, as the infamous canyoneer Aron Ralston did in the minutes before he fell, became trapped by a boulder, and after 127 hours, self-amputated his arm.
Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 2
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For example, your pain could be similar to the phantom pain some amputees feel in their amputated limbs.
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An investigative report to be aired on Italian television Wednesday raises the possibility that Israel has used an experimental weapon in the Gaza Strip in recent months, causing especially serious physical injuries, such as amputated limbs and severe burns.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
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We have an indefinable impression that the rajah is a sensuous, indolent, extravagant sybarite, given to polo, diamonds and dancing girls, and amputates the heads of his subjects at pleasure; but that is very far from the truth.
Modern India
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Several years and a couple surgeries later, her foot was amputated below the knee.
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People who conscientiously oppose the law will be barred from a career in the public service, and the religious motive will be amputated.
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The amphibian below tore more flesh from the dragonette, and some of the six limbs lay amputated.
Odyssey
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Young people on the trip, from 12 states, England, Canada and Israel, have conditions ranging from cancer to cerebral palsy, says Kids of Courage co-founder Howie Kafka of Lawrence, N.Y. Some have had limbs amputated because of their illnesses; others are paralyzed, he says.
Kids of Courage takes ill youths on cross-country adventure
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Last year one dog had to have two toes amputated after scrabbling insanely at his pen.
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Due to infections stemming from improper treatment, Lahpai Kai Ra's leg will most likely have to be amputated.
Asean's Burmese Daze
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Her leg was so badly damaged that the doctors had to amputate it.
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Furthermore, I hope that you've started in on the antibiotics because if you haven't, they'll eventually have to amputate.
CORMORANT
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Th 'dern doctor wanted t' amputate 'm, an' Bill, he raised a heluva row, I hear.
The Red Badge of Courage
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Born without fibulae, he had his lower legs amputated when he was 11 months old.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her arm is so badly injured they will have to amputate.
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Her leg was so badly damaged that the doctors had to amputate it.
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They had to amputate his foot to free him from the wreckage.
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The doctors were not yet certain that they would not have to amputate the leg.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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In 1999, Lewitzky’s lower right leg was amputated due to long term arterial disease which had contributed to the end of her performing career in 1978.
Bella Lewitzky.
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Some users compare the feeling to a phantom limb, which Merriam-Webster's medical dictionary defines as "an often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated.
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Most haunting is a frostbite victim's stump of an arm, newly amputated after he had fallen asleep in temperatures of minus 40C while he was on a vodka binge.
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The former RAF wireless operator developed sores while on marching duty that became gangrenous, causing his legs to be amputated.
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She had her leg amputated below the knee.
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Furthermore, I hope that you've started in on the antibiotics because if you haven't, they'll eventually have to amputate.
CORMORANT
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Neither of the above were nice people but driving your car at somebody & causing them such injury that they have to have their legs amputated is not the way to behave. on October 29, 2009 at 6: 57 pm Olivers Army oooh, thanks for pointing out all that stuff about PSD copper bottom, I was just putting on my ‘smack in the gob’ gloves!
Have You Heard The One About……. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Fire chiefs have admitted that as soldiers are unable to use cutting gear, surgeons might have to amputate limbs of car crash victims at accident scenes.
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Some are so tormented by the disorder they have demanded that limbs are amputated.
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Furthermore, I hope that you've started in on the antibiotics because if you haven't, they'll eventually have to amputate.
CORMORANT
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Without thinking, he touched the amputated pigtail he always used to illustrate the tragedy of his plight.
PAINT THE WIND
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In 1966 Chen successfully replanted an amputated finger, and performed an arm replantation after segmental resection, thus allowing some functional restoration after tumour removal.
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Nine days later the leg had to be amputated because of a life-threatening infection and damage to the nerves and arteries.
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There had been a surgeon to amputate, plasma to compensate blood loss, a bed to lie down in.
THE DISPOSSESSED
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The gangrene often compelled amputation, and it has been noted in this connection that the two movable halves of the predella [base] of the altarpiece, if slid apart, make it appear as if the legs of Christ have been amputated.
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Olivia suffered elective mutism, meaning she stopped talking, when she had both her legs amputated, and everyone always says I'm a blabbermouth so I thought it was a good idea to do a sponsored silence," Sarah-Jane said.
News round-up
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He was a great student, especially after he had his leg amputated from being bitten by a snake in Africa on holiday.
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There had been a surgeon to amputate, plasma to compensate blood loss, a bed to lie down in.
THE DISPOSSESSED
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What is more likely will look like California, with massive social service cuts followed by social disruption, and/or increased crime, and/or unattractive conditions (amputated beggars on the National Mall).
Matthew Yglesias » Hegemony and Deficit
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They had to amputate his foot to free him from the wreckage.
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The profoundly deaf man is also diabetic and had a leg amputated after a road accident.
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Although she had to have her leg amputated, she still feels as though she's got a phantom limb.
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Some users compare the feeling to a phantom(5) limb(6), which Merriam-Webster's medical dictionary defines as "an often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated(7).
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To retire without attempting the crime of the century would leave a criminal genius with a maddening irritation, not unlike the phantom itch of an amputated leg.
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Instead of viewing this as a disability, Subject #40 dubs his amputated arm "The Asset" and uses it to make women feel sorry for him, and later sleep with him.
Jed P. Cohen: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Women and (Mostly) Men
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Gangrene set in and surgeons had to amputate the leg to save his life.
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It was this faith that saw him through a complicated surgery to amputate his right leg on account of diabetes-related complications.
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The dilemma of the surgeon being asked to amputate a healthy limb is similar.
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In the end they had to amputate his foot to free him from the wrecked car.
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At the U.S. military hospital on a wooded hilltop here, the cost of the Iraq war is measured in amputated limbs, burst eyeballs, shrapnel-torn bodies and shattered lives.
09/28/2004
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Conclusion The flap taken from the fibular side of the great toe is an effective tissue in replanting an amputated thumb with segmental defect.
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Surgeons had to amputate both hands and her legs just below the knee, to prevent the spread of infection.
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Some experts describe it as a phantom sensation, like ‘pain’ in an amputated limb.
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amputate limbs
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At least they weren't going to amputate, which had been his secret fear.
LOST SUMMER
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Gangrene set in and he had to have his leg amputated.
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DAMMAM: A toddler's thumb was amputated after part of the appendage was severed by the steps of an escalator at King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, Al-Yaum daily reported on Thursday.
Arabnews - frontpage
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There's also the possibility that you could be suffering from a dysmorphic disorder, such as the one experienced by people who feel a compulsive need to amputate their own limbs.
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I'd spent a while visiting her in hospital earlier this year when the ulcer was acting up and there was a good chance they might have to amputate her leg.
One that had learned how to live.
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Still, there is a way that science has helped to amputate our understanding of the world as a sacred place.
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The singer, who was born with deformities of his lower limbs, had both legs amputated during his 20s.
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Both hands were amputated just distal to the carpus, leaving three metacarpal stumps on the right hand and a vestige of one metacarpal on the left hand.
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Although she had to have her leg amputated, she still feels as though she's got a phantom limb.
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Because he had lain so long in the open he needed surgery on his right foot for frostbite and his big toe had to be amputated.
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At least they weren't going to amputate, which had been his secret fear.
LOST SUMMER
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When a limb gets infected and is beyond repair, and there is danger of the patient losing his life because of this, the surgeon has no other option left to save his life than to amputate the infected limb.
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To 'amputate' such wickedness for the future, the letter last preceding has been addressed to the Senate; and the 'Possessores sive curiales' are now invited to state their grievances fully and frankly, or else ever after hold their peace and cultivate a habit of patience.
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator
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Well, one option is to murmur soothing words, then carefully, skillfully amputate their necrotic toes (then feet, then legs), provide potent inhalable steroids to coax a little more oxygen uptake from their blackened lungs, and generally spare no expense or effort to keep them as comfortable and happy as possible as they kill themselves slowly.
Dr. Andrew Weil: President Obama: Get Angry About Health Care Reform
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A clear cell carcinoma in keeping with renal origin was found on biopsy, and the finger was amputated.
