missing limb
Gone arm or leg
A missing limb is an arm or leg that is absent, whether from birth, amputation, or accident.
The phrase appears in medical contexts, insurance forms, and discussions of disability: phantom pain in a missing limb, prosthetics for missing limbs.
Someone born without a limb has a congenital missing limb; someone who loses one later has an acquired absence.
- amputationSurgical limb removal
- prostheticManufactured body substitute
- prosthetic legManufactured limb replacement
- phantomInsubstantial apparition
- phantom painSensation from removed limb
stump · artificial · disability · veteran · war wound · lost arm · loss · socket · rehabilitation · residual · congenital · birth defect · trauma · wheelchair · crutches · adaptation · nerve · nerve damage
- deformitiesdeformed, disfigured, misshapen, distorted, twisted
- impairmentsimpairment, disability, paralysis, incapacity, blindness
- disfigurementsscars, scar, scarring, deformities, deformity
- limb abnormalitiesamelia, polydactyly, split hand, extra fingers, extra toes
- missing partsarmless, legless, footless, toeless, amputation
- Physical Anomaliescleft lip, cleft palate, clubfoot, birthmark, heterochromia
bodily completeness
missing limbfull body
Entire physical form
able-bodied · unimpaired · two-armed · two-legged · prosthesis
missing, miss, missed, misses, limb, limbs, limbed, limbless