September 23, 2008

Prosthesis








prosthesis

Y
【醫】補體術;義體(如假牙等);義肢 [pros-thee-sis[
【語】添頭音;添頭音節 [pros-thuh-sis]

D

–noun
1. a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body. 
2. Grammar, Prosody. (韻律學) the addition of one or more sounds or syllables to a word or line of verse, esp. at the beginning.  


C

prosthesis, prosthetics (nn.), prosthetic (adj.) 
 
A prosthesis is a device that substitutes for all or part of a missing human limb or organ; the plural is prostheses

The adjective is prosthetic: [Dentures] are prosthetic devices. Prosthetics is the subject and process of designing, making, and fitting prosthetic devices. 


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To look as much as possible like the real Lord Longford, 

Jim Broadbent
wore a prosthetic [nose] and chin
that 
took two hours to [apply] each day.
 

A prison guard who had known the real Lord Longford was once very startled when Broadbent entered the prison door in costume. To make himself walk very slowly and lamely when Longford sees Myra Hindley for the last time in the movie (when the character is 92 years old), Broadbent put small, painful stones inside his shoes.


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Broadbent, not an obvious choice to reincarnate 

the
bumbling, bespectacled scholar-campaigner, 

is uncannily accurate as Longford, catching the almost childlike conviction that made him a 

hate figure-[cum]-laughingstock
 

during his lifetime. (Major kudos are also [due] for Victoria Bancroft's naturalistic prosthetics work.) Duncan is fine as Longford's strong but devoted wife, though her dialogue rings the least natural.


udder areola
larynx
jugular
throat or (veins of) neck
The defense attorney went right for the jugular by attempting to [destroy] the witness's credibility. 
cf. jocular
fang 
peg 
Fray








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