Having been cut off or removed, especially referring to a limb; amputated or severed.
From ampulate + -ed past participle and adjective marker. Ampulate comes from Latin amputatus, making this the past-tense form of the archaic verb.
This archaic adjective shows how medical language has simplified over time—surgeons used to say 'ampulated limb' but now just say 'amputated limb,' dropping the -al- in the middle.
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