• Prothesis may refer to: Liturgy of Preparation, also known as Prothesis Prothesis (altar) Prothesis (linguistics) A form of the custom of lying in repose...
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  • In linguistics, prothesis (/ˈprɒθɪsɪs/; from post-classical Latin based on Ancient Greek: πρόθεσις próthesis 'placing before'), or less commonly prosthesis...
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    Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches. Prothesis and diaconicon are collectively referred to as pastophoria. The prothesis is located behind the iconostasis...
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    In medicine, a prosthesis (pl.: prostheses; from Ancient Greek: πρόσθεσις, romanized: prósthesis, lit. 'addition, application, attachment'), or a prosthetic...
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    The Liturgy of Preparation, also Prothesis (Greek: Πρόθεσις, lit. "a setting forth") or Proskomedia (Προσκομιδή Proskomidē 'an offering, an oblation')...
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    head, and others behind. This part of the funeral rites was called the prothesis. Women led the mourning by chanting dirges, tearing at their hair and...
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    FDG-PET CT showing septic loosening of knee prothesis; the FDG-enrichment shows entensive inflammatory foci: demonstrative: the PET-image is, unlike a...
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  • represented hereafter as ⟨y⟩, as in modern Polish), but not before prothesis occurred, as prothesis of *v before unrounded *y seems unlikely. This was closely...
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    the south apse is known as the diaconicon and the north apse as the prothesis. Various ecclesiastical features of which the apse may form part are drawn...
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    including at the beginning of a word. Irish also features t-prothesis and h-prothesis, related phenomena which affect vowel-initial words. See Irish...
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