"I can't undergo [that] kind of surgical amputation and transplantation," he wrote Lish in August 1982.

"I can't undergo the kind of surgical amputation and transplant that might make them someway fit into the carton so the lid will close."

Body integrity identity disorder has led people to injure themselves with guns or chain saws in desperate efforts to force surgical amputations.

It appeared to be an old surgical amputation.

Instead of the shark taking off her whole leg, it takes out a large chunk of flesh, which later required surgical amputation.

Objecting to the "surgical amputation and transplantation" of Lish's heavy editing, Carver eventually broke with him.

The Liston knife is a type of knife used in surgical amputation.

Ambroise Paré contributed both to the practice of surgical amputation and to the design of limb prostheses.

Other treatments include debridement and surgical amputation.

As opposed to surgical amputation of the limbs, dismemberment is often fatal to all but the simplest of creatures.