The phrase "artificial foot" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a prosthetic limb designed to replace a foot, often used in medical or technical contexts.
Example: "After the accident, she was fitted with an artificial foot that allowed her to walk again."
Alternatives: "prosthetic foot" or "bionic foot".
After seeing an artificial foot in a store window.
"He was strong enough, and although he has an artificial foot, he worked hard," Paul says.
This last record he achieved with the help of an artificial foot on loan from a Canadian competitor.
The New Yorker, May 15 , 1937P. 103 After seeing an artificial foot in a store window.
By S. J. Perelman The New Yorker, May 15 , 1937P. 103 After seeing an artificial foot in a store window.
"I realised I didn't need a rock climbing shoe—I could just bond climbing rubber right to the artificial foot," he says.
The South African track star Oscar Pistorius, whose congenitally anomalous feet were amputated in childhood, uses modern alloy artificial feet that return almost as much energy as the runner's weight loads.
Pistorius appears to use about one-fourth less lower leg energy when matched with runners with fleshly feet because his prosthetic ankles are more efficient than fleshly ankles, and initially he was banned from the Olympics due to the claim (subsequently overturned by the International Court of Arbitration for Sport) that his artificial feet gave him an unfair advantage.
PAGE C14 RUNNER GETS ANOTHER CHANCE Oscar Pistorius was denied a chance to run in the coming Olympic Summer Games after an athletic governing body ruled that he had an advantage: his artificial curved feet.
As a flood-control measure in the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration of the federal government cleared and lined with rock about 90 percent of the creek between its mouth and Southeast 158th Avenue, about 15 mile from the mouth, creating an artificial channel 6 feet to 10 feet deep and 25 feet to 50 feet wide.
There is also a mobile traction tester: it's a remote control electric cart steered by a computer-game joystick that has an artificial leg and foot set into a hole in the middle.
