kineplastic

English

Adjective

kineplastic (not comparable)

1. (medicine) Pertaining to surgery in which amputation flaps are constructed so as to allow voluntary movement and control of a prosthesis by remaining muscles.
   • 1922, Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics - Volume 35, page 352:

     It is as well to state that in the present development of kineplastic surgery, we can hardly accept such optimism, and if I encourage my patient to a certain extent to believe this, that does not mean that I hold the same enthusiasm, for it must be said in justice to the subject that in reality one is confronted with insoluble biological problems.

   • 1971, Frederick Willard Preston, General Surgery: Introduction; General Principles - Volume 3, page 43:

     A kineplastic procedure may be performed upon the muscle in the stump or in other cases upon the muscle in the segment proximal to the stump, as in the biceps motor for a below-elbow amputation or in the pectoralis major motor for above-elbow amputation. The practical application of kineplastic surgery has been limited to the upper extremity.

   • 2001, Wendy B. Murphy, Spare Parts: From Peg Legs to Gene Splices, →ISBN, page 94:

     Taking up where Dr. Vanghetti and his kineplastic hand had ultimately failed early in the twentieth century, and borrowing from ideas in play among designers of industrial robots, researchers at IBM and other overseas centers sought to design an arm that was almost human.