(medicine) An artificial replacement for a body part, either internal or external.
prostheses
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for prostheses.
Editorial note
If the limit is higher, that means that disabled sprinters are at an advantage, and that able-bodied sprinters may even be able to gain an advantage by replacing their legs with prostheses.
Quick take
(medicine) An artificial replacement for a body part, either internal or external.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of prostheses gathered in one view.
(linguistics, prosody) Prothesis.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for prostheses.
noun
(medicine) An artificial replacement for a body part, either internal or external.
noun
(linguistics, prosody) Prothesis.
Example sentences
If the limit is higher, that means that disabled sprinters are at an advantage, and that able-bodied sprinters may even be able to gain an advantage by replacing their legs with prostheses.
And a conspiracy to (continue to) hide the makers of prostheses for all the hidden maimed.
Now imagine that, one by one, the rest of your neurons are swapped for silicon prostheses.
Feedback is very important to prostheses and helps improve care and quality of life.
Epidemiology, rehabilitation, prostheses, surgery; they all are where they are now because of war and the responses to war.
Where are the hundreds of thousands maimed -- and who made their prostheses?!
When I saw first glass I thought using a prostheses as a dream object was not such a good idea.
As people want more gold for use as a conductor, or in alloys for dental prostheses, or for adornment the price will go up.
I'm actually thinking that it'd end up less about drugs and more about high-power prostheses.
I know he worked at Valve, then he had his own company (something about building prostheses, and the last was google.
But first we will see prostheses like vision and augmentation mind computer interfaces.
Now they've had brain prostheses developed for 'em, and...
Quote examples
The caption for #32 includes "He spent two years guiding his two nephews to build him prostheses from scrap metal, plastic and rubber." That noted, there are some pretty incredible achievements by people missing both hands/arms.
I read GauntletWizard's point as that such devices are becoming like "brain prostheses." If the device were embedded in your skull/brain, but could be wiretapped, would it be subject to the fifth amendment?
They also tend to overextend this idea to human intelligence: "We think a more promising approach lies in studying how our pattern-matching minds are extended by cognitive prostheses which allow us to formulate and manipulate progressively more abstract and larger patterns." I would put it the other way around: how our cognitive system can delegate some of the processing to simple pattern matching prostheses?
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use prostheses in a sentence?
If the limit is higher, that means that disabled sprinters are at an advantage, and that able-bodied sprinters may even be able to gain an advantage by replacing their legs with prostheses.
What does prostheses mean?
(medicine) An artificial replacement for a body part, either internal or external.
What part of speech is prostheses?
prostheses is commonly used as noun.