prostheticistとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

prostheticist ‎(複数形 prostheticists)

1. Alternative form of prosthetist
   • 1980, The Principles and Practices of Rehabilitation^[1], page 81:

     Retinoblastoma surgery almost always results in a case for the prostheticist to create a substitute for the destroyed orbital contents […]

   • 2001, Finola Moorhead, Darkness More Visible^[2], ISBN 1-875559-60-4, page 235:

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

   • 2002, Keith A. Chandler, The Android Myth: How Humans Think and Why Computers Can't‎^[3], ISBN 0-595-25417-9, page 46:

     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.

   • 2005, Chris Hables Gray, Peace, War, And Computers^[4], ISBN 0-415-92886-9, page 61:

     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.