Sentences with phrase «as prostheses»

Bioelectronic implants, as prostheses or diagnostic devices, have already demonstrated their potential to improve the lives of patients.

As prostheses are generally one - third to one - half as heavy as human legs and feet, the researchers adjusted the torque profile to apply to lighter leg segments.

Implanted in the brain, Lieber's electrodes might one day serve as prostheses to help damaged nerves regain their function.

Waite hopes the byssus structures could reveal a successful formula for a stronger, more flexible tendon to serve as a prosthesis in humans.

One forgets the unrelenting physicality that links it to the human body, turning the industrial landscape into what Hal Foster has recently called art as prosthesis.

It included a film called Bridgit, which she shot on her iPhone, a device she has said she thinks of as a prosthesis.

Intended as a mirror held up to the electronic age, his art raises new millennium themes of digital transformation, technological mediation, social media - based interpersonal relationships, and computers as prosthesis and repositories of human personality and culture.

Not exact matches

Just as a lost limb can be replaced, to some degree, by a prosthesis, so the loving care of family, nursing home, and church can become prosthetics for the loss of fluency of tongue and mind.

Nurtured by mother cow I have no idea how a clunky knee can stop your breath in pure pain, unstring you as with a nerve - chop, millions have jumped at prostheses: a week, and they hip - hop delightedly.

The material is also tried and tested in other areas of medicine, such as in dentistry in the production of precision models or in orthopaedic technology to create both internal and external prostheses.

An employee should be able to attend prosthesis fittings and hair loss services where necessary, as well as emotional support services, through flexible working arrangements.

The prosthesis proposed by John Pezaris, an assistant in neuroscience at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston — at least as it's envisioned at this early stage — would be worn like a pair of eyeglasses, with digital cameras over a person's eyes that connect to an array of electrodes implanted in the brain.

His baffling case serves as a reminder that four years after South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius propelled himself into history as the first amputee Olympic athlete to compete using blade prostheses, the technology's impact on performance remains unclear despite ongoing research.

Whereas some of the other types of visual prostheses propose stimulating different areas of the brain from the one Pezaris is targeting, another promising project known as the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System is expanding its U.S. clinical trial into Europe.

«You can't underestimate the scope of the problem, particularly as the population gets older,» says James Morrison, a physiologist and principal investigator in the Retinal Prosthesis Group at the University of Glasgow's Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences.

Still, as the ability to deliver higher resolution images to the brain improves, so would the effectiveness of the prosthesis.

The nanoparticles were 30 - nanometre - wide beads of surgical cobalt - chromium alloy, a material used in much larger pieces to make surgical implants such as hip prostheses.

There's also the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System, or, as Bhavsar and others in ophthalmology like to call it, the bionic eye.

Devices implanted in the brain as neural prosthesis for therapeutic brain stimulation technologies and interfaces for sensory and motor devices, such as artificial limbs, are an important goal for improving quality of life for patients.

Freeman thinks the prospects are good for developing relatively simple neural prostheses, such as devices that improve vision in the blind.

«We can confidently say that this type of prosthesis is a viable choice and the new infection classification system, developed by the Osseointegrated Group of Australia, provides an effective tool for the use in patient selection as well as infection management.»

The brain could control the prostheses as smoothly as if they were natural limbs, offering hope to amputees, such as veterans, and stroke patients.

Bargar hopes it will be able to prepare bones for different joints, such as knees, or different designs of prosthesis that would be too difficult to do by conventional surgery.

That may seem like an odd question as the agency's reputation is burnished today by breathless reportage of the applications of its technologies, with driverless cars, robot challenges, advanced prostheses and even neuroscience applications that seem tailor - made to meet civilian preoccupations.

The cumulative incidence of stroke at l5 years after mitral valve replacement was significantly higher in the mechanical prosthesis group (14.0 percent) compared with the bioprosthesis group (6.8 percent), as was the cumulative incidence of bleeding events (14.9 percent vs. 9.0 percent).

Two people who lost their hands have been trying a prosthesis that transmits complex tactile sensations, such as the feel of water trickling over their hand

A new way to link artificial arms and hands to the nervous system could allow the brain to control prostheses as smoothly as if they were natural limbs

As Murray Gell - Mann says, models are prostheses for the imagination.

Dr. Hirsch and colleagues studied 3 - D printing as a way to create customized prostheses for patients with conductive hearing loss.

As well as setting off messages at preset times, the Xerox prostheses could also recognise people you meet by communicating with their own pager, triggering special reminders unique to that persoAs well as setting off messages at preset times, the Xerox prostheses could also recognise people you meet by communicating with their own pager, triggering special reminders unique to that persoas setting off messages at preset times, the Xerox prostheses could also recognise people you meet by communicating with their own pager, triggering special reminders unique to that person.

As people go about their daily business, their individual prostheses would record where they go and who they meet.

The waste obtained from the beer brewing process contains the main chemical components found in bones (phosphorus, calcium, magnesium and silica), that after undergoing modification processes, this waste can be used as support or scaffold to promote bone regeneration for medical applications such as coating prosthesis or bone grafts.

Freeman thinks the prospects are good for developing relatively simple neural prostheses, such as devices that improve vision in the blind or that let paralyzed people send simple commands to a computer.

The prosthesis «grows» as the child grows.

The technique, known as external stenting (ES), expands and stabilizes the airway by suspending its wall to a rigid prosthesis placed around the bronchus or trachea.

«The material could also be used for other orthopedic applications, such as orthopedic shoes or prostheses,» says Klaus.

Powered by a rechargeable battery, the robotic ankle propels users forward using sensors and tendonlike springs, relieving the hip of having to draw the leg forward as most prostheses require.

Moreover, in children, implanted heart valve prostheses need to be replaced even more often as they can not grow with the child.

Second Sight's retinal prosthesis is currently approved only for patients with inherited retinal disorders (IRD), formerly known as retinitis pigmentosa, a group of genetic diseases characterized by a loss of photoreceptors.

As a leader in regenerative heart prostheses, Hoerstrup and his team in Zurich previously developed regenerative, tissue - engineered heart valves to replace mechanical and fixed - tissue heart valves.

The company is also involved in experimental projects in neural engineering, such as blink prostheses to treat facial paralysis and neural / myoelectric implants to restore a sense of touch and improve control of prosthetic hands.

Biomedical engineers study, design, develop and evaluate biological and medical systems and products such as artificial organs, prostheses, medical instruments and information systems.

And while, as an adult, he has adjusted to his prostheses, walking is still not quite the second - nature endeavor it is for others.

Helena Bonham Carter is also good, if under - used, as a one - legged madam who shoots bullets from an ivory prosthesis.

-- and which also includes such characters as a one - legged madam with a 12 - gauge scrimshaw prosthesis (Helena Bonham Carter), a cross-dressing desperado with a taste for lace, and a «spirit horse» with an ability to climb trees.

Here, bringing the character's pride, ambition, and sanctimony to the surface, he gives the movie its true monster — in contrast to the creature, who is mimed by the indispensable Doug Jones under maybe 20 pounds of makeup and prostheses that he wears as easily as his own flesh.

Which makes it more difficult to fit a peg leg, or a prosthesis as the doctors insisted on calling it, though Jim had refused one anyhow.

Developing technology that will benefit people trapped in poverty with a disability such as 3D printing technology to make prosthesis

The size of the bones as determined by x-rays must be large enough to fit the available sized of prosthesis.

I am learning about creative ways to help preserve as much limb function as possible using prostheses instead of full leg amputation as the only solution to trauma to distal extremities.