noun
definition
An artificial replacement for part of the body; a prosthesis, prosthetic device.
definition
An addition to an actor etc.'s body as part of a costume, intended to transform the person's appearance.
Examples of prosthetics in a Sentence
This field of dentistry focuses on using prosthetics to help people achieve optimal oral health.
If the families could request that their GP specifies if they would like to receive purely genetic advice or help with prosthetics.
When he went back to the war he was instructed to start making prosthetics for others who had lost limbs.
The show required a heavy workload of make up effects, using prosthetics for each of the transformation scenes.
These methods promise to revolutionize the way we apply prosthetics.
They left me on the set sometimes because they forgot I had prosthetics on my eyes.
Prosthetist Ozan Altay joined the project to help communicate the complexities of providing prosthetics.
This means that prosthetics can be attached directly to bone and the skin around them sealed to reduce the chance of infection.
A questionnaire determined that a range of interest and ability in dental prosthetics was represented.
To provide a knowledge base on the theoretical and practical basis of upper and lower limb external prosthetics and orthotics.
For every Delvin Kehoe, there are several others whose visual prosthetics deliver little more than dots and fuzzy patches.
The goal is to enable telerobotic operations with full human abilities in hostile environments and advanced prosthetics.
Working with proprietary foam gelatine products, you'll become highly proficient in creating foam gelatine prosthetics with this remarkable and exciting material.
In particular it has maintained a strong interest in the field of upper limb prosthetics.
The bodies pile up, latex prosthetics abound and it all gets laughably pretentious.
Dentistry is changing rapidly and gone are the days of demands for mass produced NHS prosthetics.
Invest in dramatic contact lenses, fangs and prosthetics to look authentically frightening.
The prosthetics may be cosmetic or they can treat disorders such as temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorders and sleep apnea.
If you are purchasing a wig because of hair loss related to a medical issue, check with your health insurance carrier to see if there is any coverge for hair prosthetics.
The Scream Team specializes in prosthetics to create realistic effects that typical masks can't achieve.
In addition to special effects make-up, contestants are challenged to work with molds, casts, 3-D design, prosthetics and eye enhancers.
As Phlox, Billingsley wore a lot of make-up and prosthetics, but played the gentle, firm and determined physician with aplomb.