Kineplastics

Quick meaning: Kineplastics is a noun meaning (medicine) The 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.

Meaning

(medicine) The 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.

Example Sentences

In Italy, physical therapy has reached a high standard, and especially that branch of orthopedic surgery known as kineplastics.

As a result of kineplastics, it is possible to utilize those stumps which, up to the present, had always been held as incapable.

Skin 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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cineplastics, prosthetics, dermoplasty, keratoprosthetics, anaplastology, alloplast.

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