Robert Dallek

During Grover Cleveland's second term, in the 1890s, the White House deceived the public by dismissing allegations that surgeons had removed a cancerous growth from the President's mouth; a vulcanized-rubber prosthesis disguised the absence of much of Cleveland's upper left jaw and part of his palate.

American Historian

Tammy Duckworth

The wheelchair and the prosthesis give me a soapbox to stand on. If it helps me get my message across, I'm glad; then we need to talk about what we need to do for this country.

Christian Louboutin

Men in high heels? That's a prosthesis. But I sympathise. Women have these giant heels. They get taller and taller. The men need help. But a man in heels is ridiculous.

French Designer

Joe Murray

I have never personally seen a hand transplant that is more useful than a prosthesis.

American Artist

The term 'prosthesis' denotes a medical device custom-designed for each individual's needs.

Medical Device

Prostheses are functional devices and not just for appearance; they can restore abilities like walking or gripping.

Not Cosmetic

Using a prosthesis can have a significant emotional impact as it involves adaptation and may affect self-image.

Emotional Impact

In linguistics, 'prosthesis' refers to adding a sound for easier pronunciation, not meaning alteration.

Phonetic Addition

Prosthesis in linguistics often occurs in historical language development or in derivative languages.

Historical Use

The use of prosthesis can sometimes indicate a non-native speaker's attempt to pronounce words more comfortably.

Accent Marker

 without any support. It lasted only a few seconds. Dance, in particular, is all about balance and mastering the fluidity of movement. Pollyanna here lost her leg in an accident when she was just two years old. She's learned to dance with the aid of a blade prosthesis and she now competes in a class alongside nonamputees.

Meditations on the...

 And finally, often fitted with high-tech prosthesis, they exit the medical system and attempt to regain their pre-war lives. Jim took what could have been a straight-up medical science story and gave it a human dimension that touched our readers deeply. Now, these stories are great examples of how photography can be used

David Griffin: How...

 There are a lot of really neat, very good robotic hands out there on the market. The problem is, they're just too expensive -- tens of thousands of dollars. So for prosthesis applications it's probably not too practical, because it's not affordable. We wanted to tackle this problem in a very different direction.

Dennis Hong: My 7...

 She had a little sensor at the end of her prosthesis that then she rubbed over different surfaces, and she could feel different textures of sandpaper, different grits, ribbon cable, as it pushed on her reinnervated hand skin. She said that when she just ran it across the table,

Todd Kuiken: A...

 The current amputation paradigm breaks these dynamic muscle relationships, and in so doing eliminates normal proprioceptive sensations. Consequently, a standard artificial limb cannot feed back information into the nervous system about where the prosthesis is in space.

How we'll become cyborgs...

 prosthetic she had a little sensor at the end of her prosthesis that then she rubbed over different surfaces and she could feel different textures of sandpaper different grits ribbon cable as it pushed on her renovated hand skin she said that when she just ran it

A prosthetic arm that...

 less like a tool and more like their own body so the idea is how do i make the prosthesis feel like how do i embody it make it my arm some of the measures that people look at for this idea of embodiment are things like protection you protect the arm if

Restoring a lost sense...

 And part of that is because the way we conventionally make prosthetic sockets today is through an artisanal process for an ever changing human body that is so diverse across the population and across the whole world. And the way prosthesis

Making Artificial Limbs...

 this in this situation I work he said I wonder what work and then I asked even more stupid question why you don't have their prosthesis why don't you don't have the artificial legs and he said the

There are no scraps of...

 And slowly, slowly week after week his legs were improving. The stump or cast prosthesis was made, and he was starting the real physical rehabilitation.