Possessives

• stump: Currently, artificial limbs are fixed or strapped to an amputee's stump.

Converse of object

• help: He keeps the capital healthy around the clock as well as finding time to help amputees.

• become: By the end of 1996 well over 10,000 people had become casualties mostly to bomblets of which nearly 2,500 became amputees.

• allow: It allows an amputee to move the prosthetic arm as if it is a real limb, simply by thinking.

• give: The process may enable doctors to give amputees fully functioning bionic limbs which are linked to the patient's nervous system within five years.

• meet: Zafar Khan, Chair of the Limbless Association explained I lost my leg at 21 and meeting another amputee really raised my hopes.

• see: For most, the desire had begun in childhood or adolescence, often after seeing an amputee.

Adjective modifier

• double: For a double amputee it is even more remarkable.

• first: In 1997, he was the first leg amputee to complete the 250km Great Sahara Run.

• low: The management of lower limb amputees was being provided within a busy, acute vascular unit.

• old: Award powers research into prosthesis success Most older vascular amputees fail to cope with their prostheses.

• bilateral: Dick Toulson is a bilateral above knee amputee who uses a wheelchair.

• quadruple: However, after an inspirational recovery he became the first quadruple amputee to climb Ben Nevis and climbs rock routes graded Very Severe.

Modifies a noun

• rehabilitation: Amputee rehabilitation: guidance for physiotherapy students is also available.

• patient: NHS experience is essential and experience in the management of amputee patients would be advantageous.

• woman: Finally, someone has told the amputee woman 's side of the story.

• victim: Kimberly Stewart has made a sick joke about Sir Paul McCartney's amputee victim wife, Heather Mills.

Noun used with modifier

• knee: Dick Toulson is a bilateral above knee amputee who uses a wheelchair.

• limb: The management of lower limb amputees was being provided within a busy, acute vascular unit.

• below-knee: This in turn should improve artificial limb fitting, comfort and quality of life for below-knee amputees.