prosthesis

English

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹɒsˈθiːsɪs/

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Noun

prosthesis (countable and uncountable, plural prostheses)

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

Synonyms

• (linguistics): prothesis

Related terms

• hemiprosthesis
• megaprosthesis
• prothesis
• prosthetic

Translations

artificial replacement for a body part

• 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, Prosthese (de) f, Kunstglied n
• Greek: πρόσθεση (el) f (prósthesi)
• 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
• Swedish: protes (sv) c
• Tajik: протез (protez)
• Turkish: protez (tr)
• Ukrainian: проте́з m (protéz)
• Uzbek: protez (uz)

prothesis — see prothesis

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