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say it: prahs-THET-iks
prosthetics is a noun meaning "the branch of medicine dealing with the production and use of artificial body parts". It carries one recorded sense.
the branch of medicine dealing with the production and use of artificial body parts
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for prosthetics come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.