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The word "prosthetic" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to an artificial device used to replace a missing part of the body, such as a limb or organ. For example, "The prosthetic could help the amputee regain the use of their arm."
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prosthetic
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A prosthesis (prosthetic device)
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Her daughter-in-law tells me they just got her a prosthetic leg – her left leg was amputated due to complications of diabetes – and they're waiting till they can afford the cataract surgery, which after all is not essential.
Léa Seydoux, who plays art student Emma, has complained that Kechiche made her wear a prosthetic vagina for hours, so maybe that's why the sex feels so vanilla.
They never have sex but the unrequited encounters, like the one with Sassard in the bath as green-eyeshadowed Audran looks lubriciously on, are worth all the prosthetic vaginas Kechiche could throw at you.
In the film, which Ruiz considered not far from Monty Python, John Hurt plays both a wicked marquis and a manufacturer of prosthetic limbs.
The CIA in the first half of 2003 interrogated four detainees described as having "medical complications in their lower extremities": two had a broken foot, one had a sprained ankle and one a prosthetic leg.
Mental illness in the 2010s is what prosthetic noses; weight gain and monster-size uglification were in the noughties.
Though both of these films have their merits beyond merely keeping the prosthetic jowl industry in business, both could reasonably be accused of not telling the full story.
The accompanying caption reads: "She dreams of her private prosthetic clinic" and also includes her bust size – 96cm, if you must know.
To meet a young double amputee named Daniel Omar and print him a prosthetic arm.
With an expensive prosthetic when something breaks you have to send it back to the manufacturer.
Unlike Toby Jones's Hitch in The Girl, which physically and vocally evoked the director very convincingly, Hopkins relies, as with his Nixon, on a few tics, some prosthetic fakery, and just lives the man, pink, pale, blinking and blimpish, held up by iron certainty in his own talents.
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