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  2. Amputation - Wikipedia

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    Amputation is the removal of a limb by trauma, medical illness, ... In some cases, that individual may take drastic measures to remove the offending appendages ...

  3. Body integrity dysphoria - Wikipedia

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    Body integrity dysphoria (BID), also referred to as body integrity identity disorder (BIID), amputee identity disorder or xenomelia, and formerly called apotemnophilia, is a rare mental disorder characterized by a desire to have a sensory or physical disability or feeling discomfort with being able-bodied, beginning in early adolescence and resulting in harmful consequences. [1]

  4. Autoamputation - Wikipedia

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    Autoamputation is the spontaneous detachment of an appendage or organ from the body. [1] This is not to be confused with self-amputation.It is usually due to destruction of the blood vessels feeding an extremity such as the finger tips.

  5. My Rare Cancer Has Recurred 3 Times in 3 Years. At Age ... - AOL

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    Soon came the discussion that this time around, I needed something more: an above-elbow amputation. Eldiara Doucette Related: Ex-Amish Woman, 44, Grew Up a Rebel.

  6. Replantation - Wikipedia

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    Replantation or reattachment is defined as the surgical reattachment of a body part (such as a finger, hand, or toe) that has been completely cut from the body. [1] Examples include reattachment of a partially or fully amputated finger, or reattachment of a kidney that had had an avulsion-type injury.

  7. I mutilated my Barbies — and so did you. Here's why ... - AOL

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    Crazy makeup and amputations are just a couple of the ways kids often get creative with Barbie makeovers. ... or even removing appendages,” noted one study of how kids played with their Barbies ...

  8. Autotomy - Wikipedia

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    A white-headed dwarf gecko with tail lost due to autotomy. Autotomy (from the Greek auto-, "self-" and tome, "severing", αὐτοτομία) or 'self-amputation', is the behaviour whereby an animal sheds or discards an appendage, [1] usually as a self-defense mechanism to elude a predator's grasp or to distract the predator and thereby allow escape.

  9. Hemicorporectomy - Wikipedia

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    Removal of large parts of the colon can lead to loss of electrolytes. Similarly, calculated measurements of renal function (such as the Cockcroft-Gault formula ) are unlikely to reflect actual activity of the kidney , as these calculations were developed for patients in whom the circulatory system correlates with the body weight; this relation ...