MEANING
An artificial device replacing a missing body part.
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- limb prosthesis
- dental prosthesis
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Her prosthesis locked securely into place.
The workshop fitted a new limb prosthesis.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular prosthesis; plural prostheses. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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