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PROSTHESIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: prostheses   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Corrective consisting of a replacement for a part of the body

Synonyms:

prosthesis; prosthetic device

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("prosthesis" is a kind of...):

corrective; restorative (a device for treating injury or disease)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prosthesis"):

glass eye (prosthesis consisting of an artificial eye made of glass)

implant (a prosthesis placed permanently in tissue)

obturator (a prosthesis used to close an opening (as to close an opening of the hard palate in cases of cleft palate))

leg; peg; pegleg; wooden leg (a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg)

Derivation:

prosthetic (relating to or serving as a prosthesis)

prosthetic (of or relating to prosthetics)

prosthetist (an expert in prosthetics)

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