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prosthetics

[pros-thet-iks] / prɒsˈθɛt ɪks /


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One potential application involves speech prosthetics, technologies designed to help people communicate when injuries or neurological conditions have impaired their ability to speak.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

He told The Media Show there were times he "used to dread going on a Doctor Who set" because of the expensive special effects and "explosions going on, people pulling themselves in to prosthetics".

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

But after his wife read a magazine article about advances in prosthetics, describing how they had progressed from basic skin grafts to realistic artificial ears, Gilbert went to his GP.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

In a fat suit, with facial prosthetics and an outfit that screams “No. 5 country-and-western musical star of 1975,” Mr. Cruise tries far too hard to be funny.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

I took my prosthetics off and, with the other boys watching, I hoisted myself up on my hands.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge


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