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Definition of Prolapsus
1. Noun. The slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus).
Specialized synonyms: Enteroptosis, Glossoptosis, Descensus Uteri, Metroptosis, Nephroptosia, Nephroptosis, Ptosis, Ureterocele, Urethrocele
Generic synonyms: Disability, Disablement, Handicap, Impairment
Derivative terms: Prolapse
Definition of Prolapsus
1. n. Prolapse.
Definition of Prolapsus
1. [n PROLAPSUS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prolapsus
Literary usage of Prolapsus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1854)
"These distinctions were pointed out as very important in regard to the treatment,
inasmuch as the her- nial protrusions (perfect prolapsus) required, ..."
2. The Science and art of surgery by John Eric Erichsen (1854)
"prolapsus ANL prolapsus not unfrequently occurs in children, especially those
who are feeble, or who suffer from much irritation of the digestive or urinary ..."
3. The Pathology, diagnosis and treatment of diseases of women: Including the by Graily Hewitt (1874)
"Treatment of prolapsus from Hypertrophy of the Cervix. ... prolapsus, or falling
of the womb, is an affection to which women are in one form or other ..."
4. A Treatise on Ruptures by William Lawrence (1838)
"... take place through the respective openings of the pelvis, 18 Double inguinal
beroia and prolapsus ani, 2 Double inguinal, umbilical, and ventral hernia, ..."
5. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association by American Veterinary Medical Association. (1916)
"A very young donkey had prolapsus of the rectum for several days. ... The prolapsus
having returned a second time, pressure was applied against the anus ..."
6. Woman; Her Diseases and Remedies: A Series of Letters to His Class by Charles Delucena Meigs (1851)
"prolapsus uteri is a disease of the vagina, not of the womb. ... The pessary is
a suspensory, which in the cure of prolapsus is as necessary as a suspensory ..."
7. A Practical treatise on the diseases of women by Theodore Gaillard Thomas (1872)
"prolapsus Vagina. Definition and Synony?ns.—The mechanism by which the pelvic
organs of the female are kept in their proper positions, and relations to each ..."
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