Similar words: phantom, bottom line, elephant, phantasm, sycophant, pantomime, triumphant, hierophant. Meaning: n. the illusion that a limb still exists after it has been amputated.
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(1) Mechanisms of phantom limb phenomena.
(2) This reviewer reports the update of phantom limb pain.
(3) Methods: A total of 17 cases of phantom limb pain after amputation were treated with neurotropin. The visual analogue scales(VAS) were measured before and after the treatment.
(4) Less common than phantom limb pain, which is experienced by 50 to 78 percent of amputees, phantom eye pain develops in only about 30 percent of patients.
(5) Some amputees are already known to experience phantom limb pain - a feeling of pain in a limb that is no longer there - but synaesthetic pain is different.
(6) What factor may cause phantom limb pain to be more common than phantom eye pain?
(7) Just by believing I'm moving my phantom limb," he said, "the arm is in tune with my thoughts.
(8) IT IS known as "phantom limb syndrome" or "phantom pain".
(9) Some said they feel so bereft without their iPhone or Blackberry that it evokes similar feelings to the "phantom limb" syndrome suffered by amputees.
(10) Long before Ramachandran began his work on phantom limb syndrome, it had been noted that the brain areas associated with genitalia and feet are adjacent to each other in the brain's body image map.
(11) Phantom limb pain is a common experience for patients who have received amputation. However, the definite mechanism is still not clear.
(12) Amputees sometimes experience phantom limb sensations, feeling pain[sentencedict.com], itching or other impulses coming from limbs that no longer exist.
(13) Sometimes they even send it when there's no body part—phantom limb pain, which amputees feel in their missing arms or legs, is neuropathic.
(14) Some users compare the feeling to a phantom limb, which Merriam-Webster's medical dictionary defines as "an often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated."
(15) "I felt something very similar to a phantom limb, only it would be like phantom cellphone," he said.
(16) Although she had to have her leg amputated, she still feels as though she's got a phantom limb.
(17) THE CANADIAN JOURNAL OF REHABILITATION :" Publication of the University Study: "The Efficacy of FARABLOC in the Treatment of Phantom Limb Pain. "
(18) Conclusion: Neurotropin is effective and safe in the treatment of phantom limb pain a...
(19) Objective To study the effect electrode placement of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation(TENS) on phantom limb pain in the postoperative phase of amputation.
(20) Conclusion: Neurotropin is effective and safe in the treatment of phantom limb pain after...
(21) He has made a number of spectacular discoveries(sentencedict.com), most famous among them his innovative use of mirror-boxes to treat phantom limb syndrome.
(22) His obsession with the flesh and body is also reflected in the titles of his works, Human Lesson (DRESS01), 1996, Phantom Limb , 1997.
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