Found 1 items, similar to Immediate amputation.
English → English (gcide) Definition: Immediate amputation Immediate \Im*me"di*ate\, a. [F. imm['e]diat. See In- not, and Mediate.] 1. Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact. [1913 Webster] You are the most immediate to our throne. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant. “Assemble we immediate council.” --Shak. [1913 Webster] Death . . . not yet inflicted, as he feared, By some immediate stroke. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. Acting with nothing interposed or between, or without the intervention of another object as a cause, means, or agency; acting, perceived, or produced, directly; as, an immediate cause. [1913 Webster] The immediate knowledge of the past is therefore impossible. --Sir. W. Hamilton. [1913 Webster] Immediate amputation (Surg.), an amputation performed within the first few hours after an injury, and before the the effects of the shock have passed away. Syn: Proximate; close; direct; next. [1913 Webster]