prosthesis
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The prosthesis helped him return to weaving, but that was not his only source of income.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
"It wasn't so easy to paint back then, but now everything is very different," says Cristian Juarez, a 29-year-old who works with a prosthesis after losing his right leg in an accident 11 years ago.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
“Equipped with a prosthesis simulating a glass eye over his pupil,” we are told, Mr. Day-Lewis “practiced hitting it with the tip of his knife without batting an eyelid.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
She also has a white prosthesis in the place of one leg.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2025
Peter noticed that the movement was smoother with the prosthesis.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
The most recent work, Berenice Olmedo’s “Amalia,” a motorized sculpture of a leg made from medical prostheses, splints and braces, was created in 2021, a comment on difficulties faced by the disabled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
The centre was set up around 60 years ago by a Belgian Catholic association and has a workshop for producing prostheses, splints and braces.
From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025
She described it as a "very unique case" because of the number of prostheses that had to be made without being able to copy any of the patient's fingers.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2025
However, an open scientific question is whether humans can embody bionic tools or prostheses that don't resemble human anatomy.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2024
She works for free, from dawn until late at night, seven days a week, to obtain money for food, units of blood, medicine, prostheses, and a scrap of land to build a permanent shelter.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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