1. relating to or involving prosthetics or artificial body parts
Usage: medical
2. relating to the addition of a sound or letter at the beginning of a word
Usage: linguistics

Examples

• The patient received prothetic treatment after the accident.
• Modern prothetic devices can restore much functionality.
• The prothetic limb was custom-fitted for comfort.
• Prothetic vowels are common in certain language families.
• The linguist studied prothetic changes in ancient texts.
• Spanish ‘escuela’ shows prothetic development from Latin ‘schola’.