WordNet
n. corrective consisting of a replacement for a part of the body [syn: prosthesis]
Usage examples of "prosthetic device".
But how could any prosthetic device protect him from his own imagination, his own misplaced common sense?
The smith probably needed to craft some sort of prosthetic device for the youth's foot, as he had for Relyn's lost hand.
Not an artificial hand, not a clever prosthetic device, just a simple hook, the shape of a capital letter J, forged from shiny stainless steel and polished like a sculpture.
Do you mean the man with the prosthetic device, the mechanical hand?
Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a ' letter, another lover.
His right leg was wooden, an old peg as opposed to any sort of modern prosthetic device, but he seemed to handle his disability with more than sufficient agility.
I decided that he had bought the thing as a prosthetic device, as an artificial enthusiasm for the planet.
A prosthetic device, almost invisible, to enhance human hearing through 30,000 cps.