He knew that an execution had to take place, that someone would be paid for amputating the head of the criminal, but whether it was to be one man's duty or another's was all the same to him.
The next difficulty was to procure amputating instruments, the rarity of surgical operations, and the generally slender purse of the "Swamp Doctor," not justifying him in purchasing expensive instruments.
Certain tumours of bones, tumours involving joints, tumours and ulcers of the soft parts of a malignant nature, and without appreciable disease of the lymphatic system, will also demand recourse to the amputating knife.
In amputating at the proximal articulation of the great toe, there is often a difficulty in obtaining a sufficient covering for the wound, on account of the presence of the sesamoid bones, and the general bulging of the heads of the bones.
In the tribe of the Dakotas the relatives of a dead chief pacified his spirit by amputating a finger.
For which I thank Captain Wharton," said the surgeon, proceeding coolly to arrange his amputating instruments, with a formality that made the colonel's blood run cold.
Mr. Stockton was among its boldest advocates, brandishing the amputating knife fearlessly in public and private circles.
When the revolutionary storm commenced its fury he exchanged his amputating knife for a sword.
This committee used the probe freely and recommended Congress to use the amputating knife upon every limb affected by the gangrene of political corruption.
In such cases, shall the patient get sooner well by amputating or not amputating this shattered limb?
The surgeons and their assistants at the amputating tables with coats off and shirt sleeves rolled up, their hands red with blood, worked swiftly to save life, for it is the "first aid" to the wounded that counts.
In the rear of our division there were three amputating tables with deep trenches dug at the foot.
Our regiment was being moved to the left and in doing so we passed several amputating tables where the surgeons had performed their operations on the wounded the night before.
The method of excision of the tonsil described by Celsus, Aetius, and Paul is to bring the tonsil into view by dragging on it with a sharp hook and then amputating it.
And Paul says that inamputating a gangrenous limb the flesh ought to be retracted with a band lest it be torn by the saw.
At my suggestion, all physicians taking amputating instruments, and relatives of the wounded and slain, have been permitted by the Secretary to go thither.
I suffer no physicians not belonging to the army to go upon the battle-field without taking amputating instruments with them, and no private vehicle without binding the drivers to bring in two or more of the wounded.
Unfortunately they took away my pistol, but a couple of amputatingknives will make good weapons.
It was an immense tree under whose shady, extended branches the wounded were carried and laid down to await the stimulant, the opiate, or the amputating knife, as the case might require.
The surgeons put off amputating the leg, he was so exhausted, but at last it was imperatively necessary to amputate.
Mother, I am shocked to tell you that he never came alive off the amputating table--he died under the operation--it was what I had dreaded and anticipated.
Treatment consists in amputating the digit concerned, and in removing the associated lymph glands.
It is not uncommon, indeed, on amputating above the knee, to find even the popliteal artery plugged by a clot.
This exceedingly simple operation is performed by a single stroke of an amputating knife, drawn along from heel to point, while the penis is stretched in the operator's left hand.
It will suffice merely to describe the best modes of amputating the thigh through its lower, middle, and upper thirds respectively, and at the hip-joint.
Various plans of amputating through the tarsus have been devised and described at great length.
He lay back and turned his head to one side and looked towards the next table on which Captain Calthrop was amputating an arm.
For a time the surgeons worked silently, amputating arms and legs, holding the bare skin between two fingers and cutting the flesh, throwing bleeding bits on to the floor, dressing and bandaging stumps and excised wounds.
He called his colleague, Captain Calthrop, over, and the two operated together, the one amputating the arm and the other the leg.
I had a pair of ancient opera-glasses, as obsolete as my amputating knives, and, like them, a part of my heritage.
I glanced toward the hospital, where my few worldly possessions, including my dress clothes, my amputating set, and such of my books as I had not been able to sell, were awaiting disposition.
In Marienwerder Hochberg found all the attendants of Marshal Victor on the floor while a surgeon was amputating their limbs.
The surgeons advised amputating his hand," she went on with a tremulous breathlessness, "but he refused.
Then he started to search hither and thither for the precious mahogany case which held the amputating knives, the tourniquets and the trephine.
It lay near the brass lock of the amputating case, attached to which there were some pieces of mahogany from the case itself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "amputating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
