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|title=Metalimb
|title=Metalimb
|wherecoined=Tumblr
|wherecoined=Tumblr
|status=Current
|status=Rarely used
|community=Otherkin
|community=Otherkin
|synonyms=[[otherlimb]], [[phantom limb]]
|synonyms=[[otherlimb]], [[phantom limb]]

Revision as of 23:49, 26 December 2015

Metalimb
Wherecoined
Status Rarely used
Community used by Otherkin
Synonyms otherlimb, phantom limb


A metalimb is a term coined by the tumblr otherkin community to replace the term phantom limb which is viewed by some individuals as appropriative of the experience of amputees. In actual fact, non-amputees are known to experience phantom limbs in a medical sense - this is termed supernumerary phantom limbs or pseudopolymelia. It is not generally used by the rest of the otherkin community.