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Definition of Prolapsing
1. prolapse [v] - See also: prolapse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prolapsing
Literary usage of Prolapsing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles and Practice of Gynecology: For Students and Practitioners by Emilius Clark Dudley (1904)
"The cervix uteri then moves forward, the corpus turns back, and the whole uterus
easily descends in a vertical direction along the prolapsing walls of the ..."
2. A System of Practical Medicine by William Pepper, Louis Starr (1886)
"The cervix then moves forward, the corpus turns back, and the whole uterus easily
descends in a vertical direction along the prolapsing walls of the vagina ..."
3. Medico-Chirurgical Transactions by Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London (1853)
"prolapsing portion removed by ligatures placed obliquely, so as to give the remaining
... Amputation of prolapsing tongue, by Professor Leber, of Vienna. ..."
4. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1858)
"This method of destroying prolapsing or bleeding hemorrhoids, by destructive
caustics, ought to be safe and effectual. I have had little experience of it, ..."
5. The Dublin Hospital Gazette (1857)
"When the prolapsing mass of piles is large, and the anus lax, and surrounded by
loose folds of integument, it conduces to the success of the operation, ..."
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