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Orthosis vs Prothesis - What's the difference?

orthosis | prothesis |

As nouns the difference between orthosis and prothesis

is that orthosis is a type of brace which either prevents, or assists movement of a limb or the spine while prothesis is the prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in {{term|nother}}, from {{term|other}} (“a whole nother thing”), or Spanish {{term|esfera|lang=es}} from Latin {{term|sphaera||sphere|lang=la}}.

orthosis

English

Noun

(orthoses)
  • (medicine) A type of brace which either prevents, or assists movement of a limb or the spine
  • prothesis

    English

    Etymology 1

    . However, often confused for a descendant of the Ancient Greek word ), which is instead the source of a different term – see , below.

    Noun

    (protheses)
  • (linguistics) The prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in (nother), from (other) (“a whole nother thing”), or Spanish esfera from Latin .
  • Synonyms
    * prosthesis
    Antonyms
    * aphesis

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (protheses)
  • a type of preparatory ceremony, part of the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church
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