Prothese — meaning in English
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English meaning
- denture noun A person's full set of teeth, thought of as a single unit.
- prosthesis noun An artificial device that replaces a missing body part.
- prothesis noun The addition of phonemes to the start of a word without altering its morphological structure, for example the Spanish word esfera, derived via Latin from Greek sphaera (“sphere”); without prothesis it would have become *sfera.
Senses
Prothese is used for these senses in English:
- prosthesis (medicine) An artificial replacement for a body part, either internal or external.
- prothesis (phonology) The prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in Spanish esfera from Greek (via Latin) (without prothesis the word would have become *sfera).
denture — full definition
- noun A person's full set of teeth, thought of as a single unit.
- noun A false tooth, or a set of false teeth, made to replace missing ones.
- noun A full set of false teeth that replaces every tooth in a mouth.
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