Meanings
- pluralplural onlymedicineThe branch of surgery that deals with kineplastic amputation, in which the muscles of the stump are arranged to support voluntary control of a specially designed prosthesis.
In Italy, physical therapy has reached a high standard, and especially that branch of orthopedic surgery known as kineplastics.
1919, Military Medicine - Volume 45, page 6722 more examples
As a result of kineplastics, it is possible to utilize those stumps which, up to the present, had always been held as incapable.
1918, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical AssociationSkin flaps, muscular insertions, various bone and tendon fragments and segments of limb, which would seem superfluous under ordinary circumstances for the preparation of ordinary stumps, must be recognized to be of the greatest value in view of future kineplastics.
1923, Charles Eucharist de Medicis Sajous, Louis Theo de Medicis Sajous, Analytic cyclopedia of practical medicine - Volume 7, page 827
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