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)

(medicine) An artificial replacement for a body part, either internal or external.
(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 iṣṭināʿiyy), طَرَف اِصْطِنَاعِيّ‎ m (ṭaraf iṣṭināʿiyy)
Armenian: պրոթեզ (hy) (protʿez)
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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