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i-Limb

prosthetic device

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battlefield medicine

In battlefield medicine
…is the bionic hand called i-Limb, which became available to amputees in 2007. The prosthetic has five fully and independently functional fingers and is controlled by a computer chip connected to electrodes that detect electrical signals from surviving arm muscles.
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