prostheticist

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A form of prosthetist — A person who makes or fits prosthetic devices.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nounprostheticist (plural prostheticists)

plural prostheticists

  1. alternativeAlternative form of prosthetist.

    Her neighbour in the darkest of the upstairs rooms is a dental prostheticist […]

    2001, Finola Moorhead, Darkness More Visible, →ISBN, page 235
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    Retinoblastoma surgery almost always results in a case for the prostheticist to create a substitute for the destroyed orbital contents […]

    1980, The Principles and Practices of Rehabilitation, page 81

    While the two fields can exchange ideas about the design of artificial hands, the prostheticist has the entire natural anatomical, neurological and cerebral power of a human being to work with, whereas the roboticist has the additional and formidable task of duplicating all that backup capacity.

    2002, Keith A. Chandler, The Android Myth: How Humans Think and Why Computers Can't, →ISBN, page 46

    We live in a society of automatons, of machines tightly coupled with "organic" bodies themselves denatured and reassembled, discursively by the teacher, politician, and boss as well as literally under the knife of the surgeon or the hand of the prostheticist.

    2005, Chris Hables Gray, Peace, War, And Computers, →ISBN, page 61

Origin

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APA

prostheticist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prostheticist

MLA

“prostheticist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prostheticist. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prostheticist,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prostheticist.

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