Or they check the "meat chart," which lists awards for lost body parts, based on a grisly schedule that codifies missing limbs with weeks of wages.
"Loss of life is as tragic and devastating as it gets, but to see young lads — much younger than me — wrapped in plastic and missing limbs, with hundreds of tubes coming out of them, was something I never prepared myself for.
Once a blastema had been induced at some wound site in the body, regeneration researchers suggest, it might regrow the missing limb or organ with no further intervention required.
Just like organ donors, those that bequeath their medical implants can bid farewell to the world with the knowledge they offer a stranger a second chance at life, be it a man with a heart defect in India, a woman undergoing a hip replacement in America, or a child with a missing limb in Ghana.
He was not anxious or embarrassed about his missing limb, and could talk about future plans with men who felt a similar sense of loss.
Others had better accept you as you are, because you are dealing with a physical limitation as real as a missing limb.
Tink, in turn, was intrigued with Henry; his handsome good looks, his quiet but strong demeanor, and the ease with which he had adjusted to life without his own missing limb.
2. As a class, read and discuss "Missing Limb?
Was it something physical, like a missing limb?
Phantom limb pain is suffered by an amputee who experiences pain in the missing limb.
