The difference between Prosthesis and Prothesis

When used as nouns, prosthesis means an artificial replacement for a body part, either internal or external, whereas prothesis means the prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in spanish from latin (expected form would be *).

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  1. Prosthesis as a noun (medicine):

    An artificial replacement for a body part, either internal or external.

  2. Prosthesis as a noun (linguistics, prosody):

    Prothesis.

  1. Prothesis as a noun (phonology):

    The prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in Spanish from Latin (expected form would be *).

  1. Prothesis as a noun:

    a type of preparatory ceremony, part of the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church

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