Terms vs Robodoc - What's the difference?
terms | robodoc |
(science fiction) A robot that performs the duties of a doctor or surgeon.
* 2005 , Alan Robbins, A Small Box of Chaos (page 64)
* 2013 , Gary Caplan, The Phoenix Rising
A telesurgeon.
* 2005 , Vladimir B. Baji?, ?Tin Wee Tan, Information Processing and Living Systems (page 471)
As nouns the difference between terms and robodoc
is that terms is while robodoc is (science fiction) a robot that performs the duties of a doctor or surgeon.robodoc
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- Sheppard observed several crew begin installing some of the robodocs in the medbay who would act as triage and initial aid to any wounded crew members or space marines.
- 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.
