Sentence examples for phantom arm from inspiring English sources

When the water trickled down his cheek, he felt it running down his phantom arm.

They feel their phantom leg swinging, water trickling down a phantom arm, a phantom ring becoming too tight for a phantom digit.

Ramachandran then asked them to move both their intact arm and, in their mind, their phantom arm — to pretend that they were conducting an orchestra, say.

Andresen and sleep-apnea devices were designed in 3 dimensions by using FreeForm software (version 11; Geo Magics SensAble Group, Wilmington, Mass) and a phantom arm.

Meanwhile Cardell, who agrees to assist him with the case, is tormented not only by agonising pain in his phantom arm but by violent panic attacks, another legacy of his traumatic war.

She saw him perform a feat that seemed to her nearly as astonishing as curing the blind: seating at a table a patient suffering from pain in a rigid phantom arm, he held up a mirror in such a way that the patient's working arm appeared in the position of the missing one, and then instructed him to move it.

In all but one patient, phantom hands that had been balled into painful fists opened, and phantom arms that had stiffened into agonizing contortions straightened.

People who for years had been unable to unclench their phantom fist suddenly felt their hand open; phantom arms in painfully contorted positions could relax.

He defended the decision not to count submarines and bombers in the overhaul, saying officials have decided it is not sensible to count what he termed "phantom arms".

They are beckoned by (and sometimes obliged to wrestle with) bodiless phantom arms that slide into the sleeves of empty jackets.

The novel moves forward to Owen's adulthood, in which a car accident, its cause debated, has resulted in an arm amputation and phantom limb pain that is almost unbearable.