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PROTHESIS

\pɹˈɒθəsˌɪs], \pɹˈɒθəsˌɪs], \p_ɹ_ˈɒ_θ_ə_s_ˌɪ_s]\

Definitions of PROTHESIS

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary

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See Prosthesis.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

That part of surgery whose object is to add to the human body some artificial part, in place of one that may be wanting, as a wooden leg, an artificial eye, &c.

1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
By Robley Dunglison

Same as Prosthesis

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

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