What is "prostheses"

Usage examples of "prostheses".

Upon noticing his stare, the Contessa hastily rearranged the throw, screening the prostheses from view.

The prostheses, empty of their operator, dropped to the tiled floor with a loud clatter.

The old kzin with his prostheses looked curiously vulnerable asleep, curled something like a house cat in a basket, but with his artificial arm jutting out at an awkward angle.

Where limbs had actually been broken, field prostheses were unfolded and applied and supported them.

For the first time he noticed that the thumbs, which he had noted as being rather long, bore lifelike prostheses, complete with nails and tiny wisps of hair, that made the tips fan out to the same distance as the forefingers.

I may need a pacemaker, or even some of the odder additions people accept: artificial sphincters, intimate prostheses, cochlear implants to restore hearing.

We feel sensations in our prostheses, just as amputees do in phantom limbs.