What is "prosthetics"

Usage examples of "prosthetics".

One of the creepiest parts was the way the hard polished metal of their prosthetics buried itself in their living bodies.

The focus of the investigation now was not cloning, but the electronics and prosthetics expertise that had provided the disguised weapons.

Their rivals, the Mechanists, had replaced flesh with advanced prosthetics.

Normally amputees used kinaware prosthetics, but she wanted him whole again, human.

Still, the trick is to make prosthetics as antigenically neutral as possible.

Some had treads missing from their 168 tracks, limbs had been replaced by rusty prosthetics, bellybuttons by eggcups, eyeballs by lightbulbs.

Some had treads missing from their tracks, limbs had been replaced by rusty prosthetics, bellybuttons by eggcups, eyeballs by lightbulbs.

To get around that, all our prosthetics are biomimetic and possess a DNA chip that allows for recognition and then integration into the host body.

These were few, since prosthetics could replace most damaged limbs, inherited damage could be reversed with gene therapy, and organ transplants could repair most constitutional inadequacies or the deteriorations of age.

Secondly, we have engaged public opinion in the question in such a way as to put it fiercely on the side of a broad interpretation of humanity, since there is not a human being in existence who does not hope for prosthetics if they will keep him alive.

As a childgrows, so do his eye sockets, hence the needto replace prosthetics from time to time.

The Emdees don't know about prosthetics for him—they've never done Gands be­fore and don't have appropriate limbs to use for replacements.

He can't really reach the controls, but a somewhat crooked prosthetics expert on Tatooine built him a set of hand-and-leg extensions he can wear, so his height has not limited him in the least.