Usually means: Surgical removal of body part.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. amputation: Merriam-Webster
  2. amputation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. amputation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. amputation: Vocabulary.com
  5. Amputation, amputation: Wordnik
  6. amputation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. amputation: Wiktionary
  8. Amputation, amputation: Dictionary.com
  9. amputation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. amputation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Amputation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Amputation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. amputation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. amputation: Rhymezone
  15. Amputation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. amputation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. amputation: FreeDictionary.org
  18. amputation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. amputation: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. amputation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. amputation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. amputation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Amputation: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Amputation: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. amputation: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  8. amputation: Medical dictionary
  9. Amputation: Drug Medical Dictionary
  10. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See amputate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (amputation)

noun:  surgical removal of all or part of a limb, etc.
noun:  the loss of a limb, etc. through trauma

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