prosthetics
IPA: prɑsθˈɛtɪks
noun
- (medicine) branch of medicine that deals with the artificial replacement of missing body parts.
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Examples of "prosthetics" in Sentences
- This is the technology that will someday lead to the kind of prosthetics I wrote about in Hammered.
- For the moment, the NGO's main focus is to set up a facility to produce longer-term prosthetics for Haiti's newly disabled population.
- No sweat off Fillion's bloodied brow as he invites people to freely take a poke at the gelatin prosthetics that have been adhered to his face.
- The new MIT research could lead to the development of optical brain prosthetics to control neurons, eliminating the need for irreversible surgery.
- Until now, researchers working on brain prosthetics have used different algorithms depending on what method they were using to measure brain activity.
- The company specializes in prosthetics for hands and arms for, among others, soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington.
- For all of the hero zombies, we had to get the people who played them, mostly friends, to have complete head casts so that the prosthetics could be applied properly.
- I [spent] about four hours in prosthetics ’cause all those hooks and pieces through the wrists and cuffs and everything, and once I was done I walked on stage and they hooked me up.
- Under the purview of hair and makeup designer Jenny Shircore, most of the actors, if not covered in prosthetics, had to be spray-tanned regularly to maintain their golden, Grecian appearance.
- Despite his disability Kenny is able to lead a relatively normal life including playing sport and finding love despite refusing a weelchair or any kind of prosthetics in favour of getting around as he is using only his hands. on 2 April, 2010, 16: 02
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