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prosthetics

/pɹɒsˈθɛtɪks/

prosthetics is the plural of prosthetic.

Meaning of prosthetic

Noun

prosthetic (plural prosthetics)

  1. An artificial replacement for part of the body; a prosthesis, prosthetic device.
  2. An addition to an actor etc.'s body as part of a costume, intended to transform the person's appearance.
    • The specialist makers of prosthetics are part chemist, part artist and part engineer. Each tends to specialise in a particular area, such as sculpting, mould making, foaming latex, knotting hair into the pieces, colouring or artworking.2003, Penny Delamar, The Complete Make-up Artist

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Noun

prosthetics (uncountable)

  1. Branch of medicine that deals with the artificial replacement of missing body parts.

Origin of prosthetics

By surface analysis, prosth- + -etic + -s.

Words formed from prosthetics

Questions about prosthetics

What does prosthetics mean?
Prosthetics means branch of medicine that deals with the artificial replacement of missing body parts.
What is prosthetics the plural of?
Prosthetics is the plural of prosthetic.
What part of speech is prosthetics?
Prosthetics is a noun.
How do you pronounce prosthetics?
Prosthetics is pronounced /pɹɒsˈθɛtɪks/.

Words near prosthetics in the dictionary

  1. prosthetically
  2. prosthetician
  3. prostheticians
  4. prostheticist
  5. prostheticists
  6. prosthetics
  7. prosthetist
  8. prosthetists
  9. prosthion
  10. prostho-
  11. prosthodontic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prosthetics (page history and authors); prosthetic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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