Sentences with phrase «prosthesis type»

«The absence of a significant survival benefit associated with one prosthesis type over another focuses decision making on lifestyle considerations, including the burden of anticoagulation medication and monitoring, and the relative risks of major morbidity — primarily stroke, reoperation, and major bleeding events,» the authors write.

Not exact matches

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.

«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.»

Implantable prostheses designed to deliver electrical stimuli directly to the auditory nerve hold considerable promise for people with a type of deafness in which the sensory hair cells of the inner ear are damaged

This MIT Tech Review article outlines work on a «memory prosthesis,» which could help restore brain function for those with Alzheimer's, stroke, or other types of brain injury.

Wow — I just realized that given how low whoever this is who's posing as mike is willing to go, I'd better note that I meant prostheses when I type «prosthetics.»

I wonder, too, whether the fact that, as Powers calls it, the «digital prosthesis» that connects a writer with the computer is a QUERTY keyboard acts as a barrier to lawyers» use of computers generally, because if one learns to dictate, one has less incentive to learn to touch type.