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• toe: During the next five months Lewis had to amputate the frostbitten toes of several men in his party.

• arm: One victim had to have her arms amputated at the elbow.

• foot: He broke his ankle very badly, and it was thought he would have to have his foot amputated.

• hand: Men just get their hands amputated for similar offenses.

• year: Two thousand arms and legs are amputated every year in the UK as a direct result of smoking.

Preposition: above

• knee: However, her leg had to be amputated above the knee to have a clean surface for healing.

Preposition: in

• hospital: A letter from him later put the record straight, saying he'd had his leg amputated in a hospital in Bulgaria.

Adjective complement

• due: FACT: 2000 people a year have to have a limb amputated due to the effects of smoking.

Modifying Another Word

• partially: As a result of my body attacking itself seven fingers were partially amputated in 2000.

• just: The condition worsened until February 1910 when his left arm was amputated just below the elbow.

• successfully: Jackson's left arm was successfully amputated but he developed pneumonia and he died at Guinea Station on 10th May, 1863.

• then: He fell inside the machine and triggered a sensor which automatically started the machinery, which then amputated his legs.

• subsequently: She suffered extreme frost bite in both feet which were subsequently amputated.

• eventually: Her right leg was badly affected and eventually amputated.

Preposition: after

• blunder: Alexander Harris Solicitors Home » News » Patient with burnt toe has to have leg amputated after hospital blunders Jump to navigation.

Infinitive complement

• prevent: A broken limb needed to be amputated immediately to prevent the onset of gangrene.

Preposition: below

• knee: Mr Heathcote is a man of 69 years whose left leg was amputated below the knee in 1991.

• elbow: The condition worsened until February 1910 when his left arm was amputated just below the elbow.