Article: Prosthesis

A United States Army soldier plays foosball with two prosthetic arms

Jon Comer, professional skateboarder with a prosthetic leg.

In medicine, a prosthesis is an artificial extension that replaces a missing body part. Prostheses are typically used to replace parts lost by injury (traumatic) or missing from birth (congenital) or to supplement defective body parts.

Types

Some types of prosthetics include:

• Artificial limbs
• Cochlear implants
• Corrective lenses
• Hair prosthesis
• Facial prosthetics
• Maxillofacial prosthetics
• Neuroprosthetics
• Ocular prosthetics
• Replacement joints (eg hips)
• Somato prosthetics
• Surgical prosthetics
• Transtibial prosthesis

See also

• Orthosis
• Prosthetics in fiction
• Bionics