prosthesis

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Etymology

Via Latin, from Ancient Greek πρόσθεσις (prósthesis, “addition”), from προστίθημι (prostíthēmi, “I add”), from πρός (prós, “towards”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “I place”), from Proto-Indo-European *próti, *préti + *dʰédʰeh₁ti (“to be putting, to be placing”). By surface analysis, prosth- +‎ -esis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹɒsˈθiːsɪs/, /ˈpɹɒsθəsɪs/

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Noun

prosthesis (countable and uncountable, plural prostheses)

2. (medicine) An artificial replacement for a body part, either internal or external.

   Hyponyms: hemiprosthesis, megaprosthesis

4. (linguistics, prosody) Prothesis.

Derived terms

• bioprosthesis
• endoprosthesis
• exoprosthesis
• keratoprosthesis
• neuroprosthesis
• orthoprosthesis

Related terms

• prosthetic
• prosthetics
• prosthodontics
• prothesis

Translations

artificial replacement for a body part

Afrikaans: protese Albanian: protezë (sq) f Arabic: بَدِيل اِصْطِنَاعِيّ m (badīl iṣṭināʕiyy), طَرَف اِصْطِنَاعِيّ m (ṭaraf iṣṭināʕiyy) Armenian: պրոթեզ (hy) (protʻez) Azerbaijani: protez Belarusian: пратэ́з m (pratéz) Bulgarian: проте́за f (protéza) Catalan: pròtesi (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 義肢 / 义肢 (zh) (yìzhī), 假肢 (zh) (jiǎzhī) Czech: protéza (cs) f Danish: protese (da) c Dutch: prothese (nl) f Esperanto: protezo Estonian: protees Finnish: proteesi (fi), (of a limb) tekoraaja French: prothèse (fr) f Galician: prótese (gl) Georgian: პროთეზი (ṗrotezi) German: Prothese (de) f, Kunstglied n Greek: πρόθεση (el) f (próthesi) Hebrew: תּוֹתָב (he) m (totáv), פְּרוֹתֶזָה (he) f (proteza) Hungarian: protézis (hu) Icelandic: gervilimur m Italian: protesi (it) f Japanese: 義肢 (ja) (ぎし, gishi) Kazakh: протез (protez), жасанды мүше (jasandy müşe) Korean: 의지(義肢) (ko) (uiji), 보철(補綴) (bocheol) Kyrgyz: протез (protez) Latvian: protēze f Lithuanian: protezas m Macedonian: проте́за f (protéza) Norwegian: Bokmål: protese m Nynorsk: protese m Occitan: protèsi f Persian: پروتز (fa) (porotez), اندام مصنوعی (andâm-e masnu'i) Polish: proteza (pl) f Portuguese: prótese (pt) f Romanian: proteză (ro) f Russian: проте́з (ru) m (protɛ́z) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: проте́за f Roman: protéza (sh) f Slovak: protéza f Slovene: proteza f Spanish: prótesis (es) f Swahili: kiungo bandia Swedish: protes (sv) c Tajik: протез (protez) Turkish: protez (tr) Ukrainian: проте́з m (protéz) Uzbek: protez (uz)

prothesis — see prothesis

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