biocyberneticadj.
/ˌbʌɪə(ʊ)ˌsʌɪbəˈnɛtɪk/, U.S. /ˌbaɪoʊˌsaɪbərˈnɛdɪk/ Of or relating to biocybernetics. Now frequently in extended use: (of an organism) having both living and electromechanical parts; of or relating to such an organism.
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1968 Electroencephalogr. & Clin. Neurophysiol. 25 395/1 The possibility of control-led inhibition opens a promising biocybernetic approach to the external control of volitional movement of paralysed human extremities.
1970 Look 6 Oct. 90/1 With the dawning of the bio-cybernetic seventies, it is not too surprising that LSD is about to be eclipsed..by an electronic successor.
1996 B. Sterling Holy Fire 247 The cats seemed to have been integrated in some biocybernetic fashion into the texture of the flat.
2005 W. J. T. Mitchell What Do Pictures Want? xv. 313 The final result and the whole tendency of the smart bomb and the suicide bomber are the same, namely, the creation of a biocybernetic life-form, the reduction of a living being to a tool or machine.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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