Many died of disease. After more than a month of digging, engineers decided that the canal would not work.

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So biomedical engineers have been working for many years on how to design replacement parts for joints like the hip: the artificial hip is the most well developed of those.

因此,生物医学工程师花了很多年时间,致力于设计像髋关节这样的关节替代品,尤以人工髋关节的研究最为成熟

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