Prosthesis
noun
An artificial body part, such as a leg, a heart, or a breast, which replaces or supplements a missing or damaged part of the body.
After the accident, he had to use a prosthesis in place of his missing leg.
Often appears as...
- orthopedic prosthesis
- prosthetic limb
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Technical
noun
The addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, often used in phonetics and linguistics studies.
In the word 'squire', the prosthesis 'e-' is used to form the word 'esquire'.
Often appears as...
- prosthetic vowel
- prosthetic syllable
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Academic
noun
An artificial body part, such as a leg, a heart, or a breast, which replaces or supplements a missing or damaged part of the body.
After the accident, he had to use a prosthesis in place of his missing leg.
Often appears as...
- orthopedic prosthesis
- prosthetic limb
Usage tips
Technical
noun
The addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, often used in phonetics and linguistics studies.
In the word 'squire', the prosthesis 'e-' is used to form the word 'esquire'.
Often appears as...
- prosthetic vowel
- prosthetic syllable
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Device
The term 'prosthesis' denotes a medical device custom-designed for each individual's needs.
Her prosthesis allowed her to walk after she lost her foot to diabetes.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Cosmetic
Prostheses are functional devices and not just for appearance; they can restore abilities like walking or gripping.
After extensive training, his arm prosthesis enabled him to hold a pen again.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
Using a prosthesis can have a significant emotional impact as it involves adaptation and may affect self-image.
It took her some time to emotionally accept her prosthesis as a part of her body image.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Device
The term 'prosthesis' denotes a medical device custom-designed for each individual's needs.
Her prosthesis allowed her to walk after she lost her foot to diabetes.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Cosmetic
Prostheses are functional devices and not just for appearance; they can restore abilities like walking or gripping.
After extensive training, his arm prosthesis enabled him to hold a pen again.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
Using a prosthesis can have a significant emotional impact as it involves adaptation and may affect self-image.
It took her some time to emotionally accept her prosthesis as a part of her body image.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Device
The term 'prosthesis' denotes a medical device custom-designed for each individual's needs.
Her prosthesis allowed her to walk after she lost her foot to diabetes.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Cosmetic
Prostheses are functional devices and not just for appearance; they can restore abilities like walking or gripping.
After extensive training, his arm prosthesis enabled him to hold a pen again.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
Using a prosthesis can have a significant emotional impact as it involves adaptation and may affect self-image.
It took her some time to emotionally accept her prosthesis as a part of her body image.
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Meditations on the...
without any support. It lasted only a few seconds. Dance, in particular, is all about balance and mastering the fluidity of movement. Pollyanna here lost her leg in an accident when she was just two years old. She's learned to dance with the aid of a blade prosthesis and she now competes in a class alongside nonamputees.
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David Griffin: How...
And finally, often fitted with high-tech prosthesis, they exit the medical system and attempt to regain their pre-war lives. Jim took what could have been a straight-up medical science story and gave it a human dimension that touched our readers deeply. Now, these stories are great examples of how photography can be used
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Dennis Hong: My 7...
There are a lot of really neat, very good robotic hands out there on the market. The problem is, they're just too expensive -- tens of thousands of dollars. So for prosthesis applications it's probably not too practical, because it's not affordable. We wanted to tackle this problem in a very different direction.
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Todd Kuiken: A...
She had a little sensor at the end of her prosthesis that then she rubbed over different surfaces, and she could feel different textures of sandpaper, different grits, ribbon cable, as it pushed on her reinnervated hand skin. She said that when she just ran it across the table,
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How we'll become cyborgs...
The current amputation paradigm breaks these dynamic muscle relationships, and in so doing eliminates normal proprioceptive sensations. Consequently, a standard artificial limb cannot feed back information into the nervous system about where the prosthesis is in space.
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A prosthetic arm that...
prosthetic she had a little sensor at the end of her prosthesis that then she rubbed over different surfaces and she could feel different textures of sandpaper different grits ribbon cable as it pushed on her renovated hand skin she said that when she just ran it
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Restoring a lost sense...
less like a tool and more like their own body so the idea is how do i make the prosthesis feel like how do i embody it make it my arm some of the measures that people look at for this idea of embodiment are things like protection you protect the arm if
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Making Artificial Limbs...
And part of that is because the way we conventionally make prosthetic sockets today is through an artisanal process for an ever changing human body that is so diverse across the population and across the whole world. And the way prosthesis
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There are no scraps of...
this in this situation I work he said I wonder what work and then I asked even more stupid question why you don't have their prosthesis why don't you don't have the artificial legs and he said the
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Alberto Cairo: There are...
And slowly, slowly week after week his legs were improving. The stump or cast prosthesis was made, and he was starting the real physical rehabilitation.
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Meditations on the...
without any support. It lasted only a few seconds. Dance, in particular, is all about balance and mastering the fluidity of movement. Pollyanna here lost her leg in an accident when she was just two years old. She's learned to dance with the aid of a blade prosthesis and she now competes in a class alongside nonamputees.
Video examples
David Griffin: How...
And finally, often fitted with high-tech prosthesis, they exit the medical system and attempt to regain their pre-war lives. Jim took what could have been a straight-up medical science story and gave it a human dimension that touched our readers deeply. Now, these stories are great examples of how photography can be used
Video examples
Dennis Hong: My 7...
There are a lot of really neat, very good robotic hands out there on the market. The problem is, they're just too expensive -- tens of thousands of dollars. So for prosthesis applications it's probably not too practical, because it's not affordable. We wanted to tackle this problem in a very different direction.
Video examples
Todd Kuiken: A...
She had a little sensor at the end of her prosthesis that then she rubbed over different surfaces, and she could feel different textures of sandpaper, different grits, ribbon cable, as it pushed on her reinnervated hand skin. She said that when she just ran it across the table,
Video examples
How we'll become cyborgs...
The current amputation paradigm breaks these dynamic muscle relationships, and in so doing eliminates normal proprioceptive sensations. Consequently, a standard artificial limb cannot feed back information into the nervous system about where the prosthesis is in space.
Video examples
A prosthetic arm that...
prosthetic she had a little sensor at the end of her prosthesis that then she rubbed over different surfaces and she could feel different textures of sandpaper different grits ribbon cable as it pushed on her renovated hand skin she said that when she just ran it
Video examples
Restoring a lost sense...
less like a tool and more like their own body so the idea is how do i make the prosthesis feel like how do i embody it make it my arm some of the measures that people look at for this idea of embodiment are things like protection you protect the arm if
Video examples
Making Artificial Limbs...
And part of that is because the way we conventionally make prosthetic sockets today is through an artisanal process for an ever changing human body that is so diverse across the population and across the whole world. And the way prosthesis
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There are no scraps of...
this in this situation I work he said I wonder what work and then I asked even more stupid question why you don't have their prosthesis why don't you don't have the artificial legs and he said the
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Alberto Cairo: There are...
And slowly, slowly week after week his legs were improving. The stump or cast prosthesis was made, and he was starting the real physical rehabilitation.
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Quote examples
Robert Dallek
American Historian
During Grover Cleveland's second term, in the 1890s, the White House deceived the public by dismissing allegations that surgeons had removed a cancerous growth from the President's mouth; a vulcanized-rubber prosthesis disguised the absence of much of Cleveland's upper left jaw and part of his palate.
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Tammy Duckworth
The wheelchair and the prosthesis give me a soapbox to stand on. If it helps me get my message across, I'm glad; then we need to talk about what we need to do for this country.
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Christian Louboutin
French Designer
Men in high heels? That's a prosthesis. But I sympathise. Women have these giant heels. They get taller and taller. The men need help. But a man in heels is ridiculous.
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Joe Murray
American Artist
I have never personally seen a hand transplant that is more useful than a prosthesis.
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Robert Dallek
American Historian
During Grover Cleveland's second term, in the 1890s, the White House deceived the public by dismissing allegations that surgeons had removed a cancerous growth from the President's mouth; a vulcanized-rubber prosthesis disguised the absence of much of Cleveland's upper left jaw and part of his palate.
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Tammy Duckworth
The wheelchair and the prosthesis give me a soapbox to stand on. If it helps me get my message across, I'm glad; then we need to talk about what we need to do for this country.
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Christian Louboutin
French Designer
Men in high heels? That's a prosthesis. But I sympathise. Women have these giant heels. They get taller and taller. The men need help. But a man in heels is ridiculous.
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Joe Murray
American Artist
I have never personally seen a hand transplant that is more useful than a prosthesis.
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