phantom limb
noun
: an often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated
called also phantom pain
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How much could the animal sense its phantom limb or prosthesis?
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Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
It is now recognized as a chronic disease in which repeated acute pain events transform the nervous system in ways that echo other conditions such as fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome and phantom limb pain.
—Emily Sohn, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
Then, as the show progresses into new story lines and the rest of the cast tries to carry on without their key player, almost like a phantom limb, the audience feels a constant twinge that something is missing.
—Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2024
Like many Russians, Putin has suffered from something like phantom limb syndrome ever since the Soviet Union collapsed.
—Calder Walton, Foreign Affairs, 19 July 2023
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Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
It is now recognized as a chronic disease in which repeated acute pain events transform the nervous system in ways that echo other conditions such as fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome and phantom limb pain.
—Emily Sohn, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
Then, as the show progresses into new story lines and the rest of the cast tries to carry on without their key player, almost like a phantom limb, the audience feels a constant twinge that something is missing.
—Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2024
Like many Russians, Putin has suffered from something like phantom limb syndrome ever since the Soviet Union collapsed.
—Calder Walton, Foreign Affairs, 19 July 2023
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“Phantom limb.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phantom%20limb. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.
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