the addition of a letter to the end of a word, so that its sense does not change
2.
a splint
3. surgery
an orthopaedic modification to a deformed extremity
Examples of 'epithesis' in a sentence
epithesis
There are three types of anaptyxis: prothesis, epenthesis and epithesis.
Gülden SAĞOL YÜKSEKKAYA 2010, 'THE EPITHESIS IN THE LOAN WORDS ALINTI KELİMELERDE SON TÜREME', Turkish Studieshttp://turkishstudies.net/Makaleler/837349591_5y%c3%bcksekkayasa%c4%9folg%c3%bclden.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The defect was reconstructed with a free forearm flap followed by the placement of a facial epithesis.
Ayato Hayashi, MD, Masakazu Komoto, MD, Takashi Matsumura, MD, Masatoshi Horiguchi,MD, Rica Tanaka, MD, Atsushi Arakawa, MD, Hiroshi Mizuno, MD 2015, 'Conjunctival Squamous Cell Carcinoma due to Long-term Placement of Ocular Prosthesis',Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Openhttp://journals.lww.com/prsgo/Fulltext/2015/03000/Article.23.aspx. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)