Meaning of kineplastic | Babel Free

Definitions

Relating to kineplasty.

not-comparable

Examples

“It is as well to state that in the present development of kineplastic surgery, we can hardly accept such optimism, and if I encourage my patient to a certain extent to believe this, that does not mean that I hold the same enthusiasm, for it must be said in justice to the subject that in reality one is confronted with insoluble biological problems.”

“A kineplastic procedure may be performed upon the muscle in the stump or in other cases upon the muscle in the segment proximal to the stump, as in the biceps motor for a below-elbow amputation or in the pectoralis major motor for above-elbow amputation. The practical application of kineplastic surgery has been limited to the upper extremity.”

“Taking up where Dr. Vanghetti and his kineplastic hand had ultimately failed early in the twentieth century, and borrowing from ideas in play among designers of industrial robots, researchers at IBM and other overseas centers sought to design an arm that was almost human.”

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