kineplastics
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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
- "As a result of kineplastics, it is possible to utilize those stumps which, up to the present, had always been held as incapable."
- "In Italy, physical therapy has reached a high standard, and especially that branch of orthopedic surgery known as kineplastics."
- "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."