Sentence examples for prosthesis from inspiring English sources

Where Occupy Sandy has been an efficient prosthesis for a community crippled more by capitalism than by a hurricane, UK Uncut has become the strong arm of a state too weak to enforce its own laws.

Played here by Anthony Hopkins, in facial prosthesis and fake belly, and the neither tiny nor particularly birdlike Helen Mirren, Hitch and Alma appear as an indissoluble partnership in art and life, suddenly threatened by pressures from without (no budget) but more from within, particularly by Alfred's tendency, now tiresome to the red-haired Alma, to become obsessed with his leading blondes.

But deep brain interfaces may lie some way in the future.At present, the Stanford group is more concerned with developing a visual prosthesis to help people who suffer from macular degeneration (a leading cause of blindness in people over 60) and retinitis pigmentosa (a genetic disorder that affects night and peripheral vision).

"That offers a relatively simple and safe way to test the device: if someone with the prosthesis regains the ability to store new memories, then it's safe to assume it works".As the hippocampus performs much in the same way in all mammals, little will need to be changed to make the chip suitable for people.

Nowadays, the most powerful Peronists are provincial governors, not Mr Menem; they would benefit from the economy's revival.The bad news for President de la Rua is that "not a drop" of Mr Cavallo's popularity falls on the government, since the minister is "seen as a prosthesis", according to Mr Lopez.

Then in 2007 Dr Herr took this a step further by incorporating assistive power into an artificial leg, or prosthesis.

He fell in love with the social worker who helped him obtain certain things he needed but comments, "the prosthesis endured longer than our love.

As Dr Bertolini puts it: "a human with a prosthesis is still a human".

However, this area is slowly starting to give up its secrets.Theodore Berger of the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, announced early in 2003 that his group was about to begin trials with the world's first brain prosthesis, an implantable hippocampus.

Although the device will not restore voluntary voiding, and patients will not know when they are going to urinate, the bladder will empty more completely and far less frequently than without the prosthesis.

"The scaffold really is acting like a prosthesis, like a device, until the cells are able to take over and lay down their own matrix," Dr Atala explains.