How to Use phantom limb in a Sentence

phantom limb

noun

• The old life is reached for, again and again, like a phantom limb.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 21 Apr. 2020
• Life in a diaspora can have the dull ache of a phantom limb.
  — Longreads, 12 Dec. 2022
• The trouble is that Mainline Protestantism is more like a phantom limb than a budding branch.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 16 July 2021
• Students are not the only ones who have come to see devices as a sort of reliable phantom limb.
  — WIRED, 9 Sep. 2022
• Anyway, a phantom limb is bad enough, but a paper just out reports on the case of a phantom finger that was never there in the first place.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2012
• Running easily is like my phantom limb—its ghost haunts me and itches in my brain.
  — Outside Online, 20 June 2022
• Much effort has been spent to understand phantom limb syndrome, but this study is among the first to shed light on a converse phenomenon.
  — Tom Roseberry, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2019
• So far, these patients have described the sensation of their phantom limb in various ways, said Carty.
  — Gideon Gil, STAT, 16 Sep. 2021
• Finally, many amputees experience severe phantom limb pain, which refers to the perception of pain in a limb that's no longer there.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
• The game is a form of visual feedback therapy, such as mirror therapy treatment used for people with phantom limb pain.
  — Williesha Morris | [e-mail], al, 22 June 2023
• Additionally, the team spent a month testing the effects of activating the implant to relieve phantom limb pain.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Sep. 2019
• For a generation raised on the mythology of social mobility, the loss of optimism aches like a phantom limb.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• This phantom limb creates a pleasurable uncertainty about where the building ends.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021
• Often what happens is the worst of both worlds: Their presence weirdly endures in the form of immense physical and emotional anguish, impossible to ignore, like a kind of phantom limb.
  — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
• An estimated 80% of whom experience some form of phantom limb pain, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
  — Dallas News, 4 Dec. 2022
• The Phantoms Sixteenth century surgeon Ambrose Paré first described phantom limb pain.
  — Iris Kulbatski, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2020
• While there are other treatments for phantom limb pain, ranging from mirror therapy to prescription pain medications to spinal surgery, the results are mixed and can even be dangerous.
  — Dallas News, 4 Dec. 2022
• To measure chronic pain, the researchers implanted electrodes in the brains of four volunteers who were experiencing pain after an amputation (phantom limb pain) or a stroke.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2023
• The resulting amputation in adulthood leads to agonizing phantom limb pains.
  — Allison Cho, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2023
• For cramping and other muscular pain in the phantom limb, Ramachandran’s procedure is remarkably effective.
  — Popular Science, 10 Nov. 2020
• The study’s authors suggest that the device could be implanted in people during a surgery that already involves a specific nerve, such as an amputation, which often results in an excruciating condition called phantom limb pain.
  — Stephani Sutherland, Scientific American, 1 July 2022
• Around that same time, neurologist Vilayanur Ramachandran was exploring this kind of phenomenon with amputees who experience phantom limb pain.
  — Popular Science, 10 Nov. 2020
• Their work fits into a corpus of research on illusory body ownership, which has challenged understandings of perception and contributed to therapies like treating pain for amputees who experience phantom limb.
  — Steph Yin, New York Times, 17 May 2018

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024