phantom limb in English

noun
1
a sensation experienced by someone who has had a limb amputated that the limb is still there.
Phantom limb pain, stump pain and phantom limb sensation describe the feelings of people who are missing a limb or part of a limb.

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1. The phantom limb -- they'll say, "But doctor, the phantom limb is paralyzed.

2. 22 Although she had to have her leg amputated, she still feels as though she's got a phantom limb.

3. Lewistown Acclaimed UK experimental ambient musician Dylan Henner rejoins his first label Phantom Limb for brand new EP Amtracks, a beautifully hypnotic wordless loveletter to a train journey through rural Pennsylvania.

4. Subsequent to deafferentation amputees with phantom limb pain show a shift of neighbouring representation zones into the deafferented zone of the somatosensory and motor cortex that can be detected with noninvasive neuroimaging methods.

5. ‘Christina Analogized the sensation to the phantom limb phenomenon - she still has that nagging sense that something about school needs appeasement.’ ‘Unfortunately, some legal discussions in effect have Analogized payment to a piggy bank, where a person's physical …