Debridement vs Amputation - What's the difference?
debridement | amputation |
(medicine) The removal of damaged or foreign tissue from a wound.
* 2003 , Rodriguez-Merchan, The Haemophilic Joints: New Perspectives (Blackwell 2003), page 96:
surgical removal of all or part of a limb, etc.
the loss of a limb, etc. through trauma
As nouns the difference between debridement and amputation
is that debridement is the removal of damaged or foreign tissue from a wound while amputation is surgical removal of all or part of a limb, etc.debridement
English
Noun
(en noun)- In view of the underlying pathology, débridement is usually combined with late synovectomy.