Robodoc
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A robot that performs the duties of a doctor or surgeon.
"Other than the most exceptional transplants, all operations were performed by cybersurgeons. These were robodocs, ArtAn nets hooked up to precision machines. They were exact and fast and dexterous."
- 2 A telesurgeon.
"Residency training of physicians thus dwindles to the production of a new breed of "robotized" physicians — robodocs — that practice exclusively rule-based reasoning with the help of a digital computer and invisible experts."
Example
More examples"Other than the most exceptional transplants, all operations were performed by cybersurgeons. These were robodocs, ArtAn nets hooked up to precision machines. They were exact and fast and dexterous."
Etymology
From robo- + doc.
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