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Meanings of artificial limbs in English

Prosthetic replacements for arms, legs, and their parts.

Usage of artificial limbs in English
1
Bobbing entrails are raised aloft, artificial limbs pile up with glistening bodies.
The Irish Times
2
The pile of discarded artificial limbs taken from victims of the gas chambers.
Kalooki Nights
3
Innate magnetic activity may affect nearby credit cards, hard drives, and artificial limbs.
Wired
4
Sophie de Oliveira Barata started her career making realistic-looking artificial limbs for amputees.
BBC
5
The tools needed to make well-fitting artificial limbs today are neither affordable nor widespread.
Wired
6
Its principal use is in the manufacture of artificial limbs, drum heads and parchment.
Hunting with the Bow & Arrow
7
The maker of artificial limbs soon fitted poor Mole with a pair of legs.
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks / Book Number Fifteen...
8
We saw very few artificial limbs in the Soviet Union where so many are needed.
A Russian Journal
9
He pays his rent working as a prosthetist, designing and building artificial limbs for amputees.
Wired
10
Stores selling artificial limbs, wig-makers, dental mechanics, loft manufacturers of perfumes, pomades, novelties, essential oils.
Junky
11
Instead of deciding he was broken, Herr started developing artificial limbs and returned to climbing.
Climbing Magazine
12
The goal was to make the interface so sensitive that the artificial limbs would respond subconsciously.
Sisterhood of Dune
13
No more artificial limbs if we can help you to grow your own new legs and arms-perhaps.
Mrs. Warren's Daughter: A Story of the Woman's Movement
14
It's a question that doesn't get any easier as real-world scientists create artificial limbs and increasingly intelligent machines.
Wired
15
It significantly raises hopes that paralysed patients might soon direct artificial limbs using nothing more than their imagination.
The Irish Times
16
Brain-machine interfaces may someday allow amputees and the paralyzed to use artificial limbs -truly a wonderful thing.
Wired
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