of or pertaining to bionics; having or being an artificial, esp. electromechanical, device that replaces part of the body; having ordinary human capabilities increased (as if) by the aid of such devices
βOperate? Plastic-surgery?β The doctor looked puzzled. βWe use bionic methods.β
The bionic machines and synthetically intelligent systems of tomorrow.
His brain is now tremendously amplified by the link to the computer. So far, heβs the only human survivor of the applications of our research. We lost the other two to brain damage during the bionic installation phase.
I threw myself on the mercy of Esmerelda, a black librarian of somewhere between ninety and a hundred who contained within her bionic hairdo all knowledge, or the ability to find it.
The fingertips of her natural right hand almost but not quite aligned with the crude bionic structure that served as her left hand.
antedating 1941
"Eando Binder," in Planet Stories
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