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The other bullet entered the right upper arm and tracked down a few centimetres under the skin, before exiting the arm and grazing the skin of the chest.
BBC: London
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So when the reinnervated skin (on the chest or shoulder, perhaps) is touched, it registers to the patient as a sensation in the missing limb.
ECONOMIST: Rewiring nerves
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You'll need to have a skin test for tuberculosis, a chest X-ray and a test for hepatitis B before taking infliximab.
CNN: Ulcerative colitis
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By rewiring a missing arm's motor nerves to muscles in the remaining stump, shoulder or chest, for example, and rewiring the arm's sensory nerves to the skin in these regions, a channel is opened to the part of the brain that once controlled the missing limb.
ECONOMIST: Rewiring nerves