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UK
/pɹəsθˈɛtɪk/
]
[ US /pɹɑsˈθɛtɪk/ ]
[ US /pɹɑsˈθɛtɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- relating to or serving as a prosthesis
- of or relating to prosthetics
How To Use prosthetic In A Sentence
- The patient with a prosthetic aortic valve who presents with infective endocarditis and an extensive annular abscess should undergo surgery before massive dehiscence occurs.
- Nothing has been seen like this in prosthetics before.
- But the little girl has amazed her family and doctors by bouncing back and learning how to walk on her prosthetic legs.
- The active site or prosthetic group of all the cytochromes is an iron containing porphyrin, or heme.
- Now they want him to have a new prosthetic hand with a 'spork'. The Sun
- Services charities say not enough is being spent on prosthetic legs and arms in some areas. The Sun
- There are sports bras, nursing bras, bras designed to take prosthetic breasts for women who have undergone mastectomies.
- A third promising avenue of research is the emerging field of bionics: In the last two years, 26 people in the U.S. and Europe have been outfitted with new prosthetic devices designed to restore their vision.
- He believes the technique could be developed within a decade to restore movement to a tetraplegic's hand or feeling to a prosthetic leg used by an amputee.
- Things such as seeing people with prosthetic legs wearing shorts. Times, Sunday Times