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of or pertaining to electrical impulses, generated by muscles of the body, which may be amplified and used esp. to control artificial limbs; of or pertaining to an artificial limb under myoelectric control

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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.
  • 'Aren't you the man with the myoelectric prosthesis?'
  • Sullivan has a myoelectric hand, which is controlled by the same neural pathways he used to control his original hand. posted by sydney on
  • When her remaining lung shrivels in its cage, and her guts collapse; when myoelectric demons flood her sinuses and middle ears with isotonic saline.
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