prostheses

• Soon he or she may need a pacemaker, or even some of the odder additions people accept: artificial sphincters, prostheses, cochlear implants to restore hearing. —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 02 - February 2002
• He has prostheses, but he's not really with it; a severe social misfit, his great talent is synthesis, analyzing what people are saying and doing according to informational topography; he's the narrator, and despite his weirdness, Watts makes him a sympathetic fellow for the reader. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2007
• A taut, wiry frame, confined to a smart wheelchair, augmented here and there with robotic prostheses: her right eye had been replaced with an Ikegami biocam, her right arm from the elbow down was mechanical, and the chair helped her brain communicate with her lower body. —  MFSF,January2005
• Three of the patients were able to demonstrate the use of this control system in advanced prostheses, including motorized shoulders, elbows, wrists, and hands. —  Medgadget
• "Our prostheses are primitive, so feeding them a lot of control signals is fruitless because they are not fully functional," says Lazowska. —  The Seattle Times

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