Crossword clues for prosthetic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prosthetic \Pros*thet"ic\, a. [Cf. Gr. ? disposed to add, ? put on.] Of or pertaining to prosthesis; prefixed, as a letter or letters to a word.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1837 in grammar; 1902 in the surgical sense, from Latinized form of Greek prosthetikos "disposed to add," from prosthetas "added," verbal adjective of prostithenai "to put to, add to" (see prosthesis). Related: Prosthetically.
Wiktionary
a. artificial, acting as a substitute for part of the body; relating to prosthesis n. A prosthesis (prosthetic device)
WordNet
adj. of or relating to prosthetics
relating to or serving as a prosthesis
Usage examples of "prosthetic".
The younger kids, in deference to either my age or my prosthetic, avoided me, provided me with a moat of open seats to aid in the isolation I desired.
Apprehension knotted her stomach as a familiar prosthetic device came into view.
Merissa watched them leave and then picked up one of the prosthetic devices, thoughtfully turning it over in her hand.
The click of my prosthetic left hand against the railing, the butt of a chubby xenobiologist bobbing along the ladder ahead of me.
I wipe sleep out of the corner of my prosthetic eye and remind myself of ship discipline.
I sit at a desk, using the inadequate VR of the prosthetic eye instead of the full wetwired interface at the back of my neck, and log myself in.
She blinks and glances down, eyes lighting on my prosthetic hand protruding under the black wool cuff of my coat.
For an instant she thought he was going to reach for her with his prosthetic hand.
The other was a sullen, feral Mechanist with prosthetic hands and a paramilitary tunic marked at the shoulders with a red hourglass.
Jacko said, tipping forward with a slight thump and leaning his prosthetic arm on the table.
Then his prosthetic thumb was over her eyeball, pushing down and out, rending muscles, ripping the hollow globe free from its moorings.
With his prosthetic arm, he smashed her across the face and she fell back on the mattress, tears spilling and mingling with the blood and mucus from her nose.
But these days we know how to properly adjust the prosthetic to the individual personality.
Even as Porter tried to regain his balance, Feeble was plucking the prosthetic from his forehead.
In fact, the Prosthetic I have in mind is a rather old model, which is only good for Post-Modern Acrostic Haiku.