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artificial limb
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artificial limb

Device to replace a limb that has been removed by surgery or lost through injury, or one that is malformed because of genetic defects. It is one form of prosthesis.

An early example, exhibited in the Royal College of Surgeons in London, is said to have been made around 300 BC. It is an artificial leg, made with pieces of thin bronze fastened to a wooden core; the foot was probably made of wood.



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