| prosthetic dentistry | A dental specialty concerned with the restoration and maintenance of oral function by the replacement of missing teeth and structures by artificial devices or prostheses. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| prosthetic group | A tightly bound nonpolypeptide structure required for the activity of an enzyme or other protein, for example the haem of haemoglobin. (18 Nov 1997) |
| prosthetic valves | Valves used to replace human valves. They are divided into mechanical and tissue valves. The tissue is divided into homografts and heterografts. There are many different types of prosthetic valves, including the Saint Jude valve, Hancock valve, Starr-Edwards valve, and Carpentier-Edwards valve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| prosthetics | The art and science of making and adjusting artificial parts of the human body. (05 Mar 2000) |
| prosthetist | One skilled in constructing and fitting prostheses. (05 Mar 2000) |
| prosthetophacos | Synonym: lenticulus. Origin: G. Prosthesis, an addition, + phakos, lens (05 Mar 2000) |
| prosthion | The most anterior point on the maxillary alveolar process in the midline. Synonym: alveolar point, prostheon. Origin: G. Ntr. Of prosthios, foremost (05 Mar 2000) |
| prosthodontia | Synonym: prosthodontics. Origin: L. (05 Mar 2000) |
| prosthodontics | A dental specialty concerned with the restoration and maintenance of oral function by the replacement of missing teeth and structures by artificial devices or prostheses. (12 Dec 1998) |
| prosthodontist | <specialist> A dentist who specialises in the replacement of missing teeth. (08 Jan 1998) |
| Prosthogonimus macrorchis | A digenetic trematode (family Prosthogonimidae) located in the oviduct and bursa fabricii of poultry in North America, particularly common in states bordering the Great Lakes. Origin: G. Prosthe, in front of, + gonos, seed, offspring; macro-+ orchis, testicle (05 Mar 2000) |
| prosthokeratoplasty | The surgical technique involved in utilizing a keratoprosthesis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| prostitute | 1. To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire. "Do not prostitute thy daughter." 2. To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute official powers. Origin: L. Prostitutus, p. P. Of prostituere to prostitute; pro before, forth + statuere to put, place. See Statute. 1. A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a harlot. 2. A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire. "No hireling she, no prostitute to praise." (Pope) Origin: L. Prostituta. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| prostitution | 1. The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman. 2. The act of setting one's self to sale, or of devoting to infamous purposes what is in one's power; as, the prostitution of abilities; the prostitution of the press. "Mental prostitution." Origin: L. Prostitutio: cf. F. Prostitution. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| prostomial mesoderm | Mesoderm that arises in lower vertebrates by continued proliferation at the lateral lips of the blastopore. (05 Mar 2000) |