flapless amputation

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• flapless amputation — guillotine a …   Medical dictionary

• Amputation — Removal of part or all of a body part enclosed by skin. For example, removal of part of a finger or an entire finger would be termed an amputation. Removal of an appendix, on the other hand, would not be termed amputation. A person who has… …   Medical dictionary

• guillotine amputation — n an emergency surgical amputation (as of a leg) in which the skin is incised around the part being amputated and is allowed to retract, successive layers of muscle are then divided around the part, and finally the bone is divided * * * rapid… …   Medical dictionary