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"I took the Minnesota multiphasic profile test once, and I tested out as paranoid, cyclothymic, neurotic, and schizophrenic. But I also tested out as an incorrigible liar!"
- Philip K. Dick

Humeld  
  A human being with augmented body parts.  

Archie had been able to add more personalized biorgnic components to the humeld that was himself. A carbo squeezer, muscle assists, and most significantly a full course of bone actuation treatments.
From The Human Blend, by Alan Dean Foster.
Published by Del Rey in 2010
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Compare to the decorative implants that form a substantial part of Samuel R. Delany's Nebula award-winning 1968 novel Babel 17.

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