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BMW has turned to 3D printing to augment its workers and stop strain on limbs frequently found on manufacturing lines. Photograph: BMW

Med-tech startup run by Johns Hopkins students aims to build better orthotics

Med-tech startup run by JHU students selected for Accelerate Baltimore incubator

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Each "thumb" is created as a custom orthotic device using a portable 3D camera, which captures the unique size and shape of each line-worker’s thumb.


.....dishonor the family by taking the mendicant habbit of the Dominicans.

Ch. XXIV: Thirst (Taṇhā-vaggo)
343.	Men, driven on by thirst, run about like a snared hare; let therefore the mendicant drive out thirst, by striving after passionlessness for himself.
350.	If a man delights in quieting doubts, and, always reflecting, dwells on what is not delightful (the impurity of the body, &.), he certainly will remove, nay, he will cut the fetter of Mara.

men·di·cant (mĕn'dĭ-kənt)
adj.
Depending on alms for a living; practicing begging.

n.

1. A beggar.
2. A member of an order of friars forbidden to own property in common, who work or beg for their living.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mendīcāns, mendīcant-, present participle of mendīcāre, to beg, from mendīcus, needy, beggar, from mendum, physical defect.]

mendicancy men'di·can·cy or men·dic'i·ty (-dĭs'ĭ-tē) n.

[形]((文))

1 物ごいをする；托鉢(たくはつ)をする.

2 物ごいの；物ごいのような.

━━[名]

1 物ごい.

2 ((形式))托鉢修道士.

mendicant

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Pronunciation: /ˈmɛndɪk(ə)nt/ADJECTIVE

1Given to begging.

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1.1Of or denoting one of the religious orders who originally relied solely on alms:a mendicant friar

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1A beggar.

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1.1A member of a mendicant order.

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Derivatives

mendicancy
NOUN

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Origin

late Middle English: from Latin mendicant- 'begging', from the verb mendicare, from mendicus 'beggar', frommendum 'fault'.

fetter[fet・ter]

• 発音記号[fétər]

[名]((通例 〜s))((文))足かせ, 足鎖；束縛, 拘束物

be in fetters
とらわれの身である；束縛されている.

━━[動](他)((文))…に足かせをはめる；…を束縛［拘束］する.

［古英語feter（足かせ）. fet-はfōt（足）と関係. △FOOT］



 天魔，為天子魔的簡稱，梵文名為魔羅（Māra，緬甸語：မာရ်နတ်），佛教的四種魔之一，生活在他化自在天頂端的天人。他們的首領，名叫波旬，號稱第六天魔王。在佛教傳說中，在釋迦牟尼成道之前，他曾經企圖阻止釋迦牟尼佛修行証悟。

orthotic

[形] ⇒or・thot・ics

orthotics

[名][U]医学（補助具による）機能回復訓練（法）.

orthotic

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Pronunciation: /ɔːˈθɒtɪk /

ADJECTIVE

Relating to orthotics.

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NOUN

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An artificial support or brace for the limbs or spine.

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