Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the electrical properties of muscle tissue from which impulses may be amplified, used especially in the control or operation of prosthetic devices.
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- adjective Using, or pertaining to,
myoelectricity .
Etymologies
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Examples
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You'll be lying down in a tank and you'll be rigged up to some kind of myoelectric or BMI or combination thereof interface.
Gizmodo Mark Stephen Meadows 2010
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Researchers are experimenting with injectible myoelectric sensors (IMES) that detect muscle activity and wirelessly transmit commands to the prosthetic arm.
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Control System Researchers are experimenting with injectible myoelectric sensors (IMES) that detect muscle activity and wirelessly transmit commands to the prosthetic arm.
Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Arm Plays the Piano | Impact Lab 2007
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Most of the amputees, Kuniholm included, have elected to use simple, body-operated hooks whose basic technologies date back to World War I instead of the current generation of myoelectric arms that read muscle signals from electrodes on the skin.
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Sullivan has a myoelectric hand, which is controlled by the same neural pathways he used to control his original hand. posted by sydney on
Archive 2004-08-01 2004
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Sullivan has a myoelectric hand, which is controlled by the same neural pathways he used to control his original hand. posted by sydney on
Medpundit 2004
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A small patch of this muscle ends up serving as a biopotential amplifier for the nerve stump, such that gross EMG signals from the newly reinnervated muscle patch can be used as myoelectric signals.
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SCOTT: Well, four years ago, my dominant left hand was not there, and I had a myoelectric (ph) prosthesis.
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When her remaining lung shrivels in its cage, and her guts collapse; when myoelectric demons flood her sinuses and middle ears with isotonic saline.
Starfish 1999
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At the end of them a ruthless villain had smashed beyond mending the remains of the useless hand and had galvanised me into a resurrection of the spirit and the impetus to seek what I'd had since, a myoelectric false hand that worked on nerve impulses from my truncated forearm and looked and behaved so realistically that people often didn't notice its existence.
Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995
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