PROSTHESIS

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The addition to the human body of some artificial part, to replace one that is wanting, as a log or an eye; -- called also prothesis.

2.
n.

The prefixing of one or more letters to the beginning of a word, as in beloved.


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