prosthetic英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

An artificial replacement for part of the body; a prosthesis, prosthetic device.
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.

形容词 adj.

Artificial, acting as a substitute for part of the body; relating to prosthesis. not-comparable

— prosthetic leg/arm
Prothetic. not-comparable

词形变化

prosthetics plural

词汇关系

衍生词

bioprosthetic endoprosthetic exoprosthetic interprosthetic keratoprosthetic megaprosthetic neuroprosthetic nonprosthetic periprosthetic postprosthetic preprosthetic prosthetically prosthetic group prostheticist retroprosthetic subprosthetic transprosthetic

词源

词源 1

From New Latin prostheticus, from Ancient Greek προσθετικός (prosthetikós, “adding; repletive; giving additional power”), from πρόσθεσις (prósthesis, “addition”), from προστίθημι (prostíthēmi, “I add”), from πρός (prós, “towards”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “I place”). By surface analysis, prosth- + -etic.

词源 2

From New Latin prostheticus, from Ancient Greek προσθετικός (prosthetikós, “adding; repletive; giving additional power”), from πρόσθεσις (prósthesis, “addition”), from προστίθημι (prostíthēmi, “I add”), from πρός (prós, “towards”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “I place”). By surface analysis, prosth- + -etic.