PROSTHESIS (prostheses)

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Irregular inflected form: prostheses   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does prosthesis mean? 

• PROSTHESIS (noun)
  The noun PROSTHESIS has 1 sense:

1. corrective consisting of a replacement for a part of the body

  Familiarity information: PROSTHESIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROSTHESIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Corrective consisting of a replacement for a part of the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

prosthesis; prosthetic device

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)

 Context examples 

A prosthesis placed permanently in tissue.

(Implant, NCI Thesaurus)

A substance or object that is put in the body as a prosthesis, or for treatment or diagnosis.

(Implant, NCI Dictionary)

Surgical implantation of a breast prosthesis.

(Breast Prosthesis Implantation, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called: Hip arthroplasty, Hip prosthesis

(Hip Replacement, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

A question about whether an individual has or had a penile prosthesis.

(Have Penile Prosthesis, NCI Thesaurus)

The device, which is called a prosthesis, can help you to perform daily activities such as walking, eating, or dressing.

(Artificial Limbs, NIH)

The tooth, teeth, or implant that supports a fixed bridge or removable prosthesis.

(Abutment, NCI Thesaurus)

Any substance other than pharmacologic substance that can be applied in biomedical research or in constructing artificial organs, devices, or prostheses that can be introduced into the human body.

(Biomedical Material, NCI Thesaurus)

Mineralized deposit that forms on the teeth or dental prostheses.

(Dental Calculus, NCI Thesaurus)

A procedure used to acquire a negative reproduction of an oral structure for the purpose of producing a positive model or cast of the structure upon which restorations, prostheses, and dentures are fabricated.

(Dental Impression, NCI Thesaurus)