Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, prolapse.
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- noun (Med.) Prolapse.
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- noun medicine
prolapse
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- noun the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus)
Etymologies
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Examples
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This, the coming-of-Buddha symptom, Dr. Anderson describes as prolapsus.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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This, the coming-of-Buddha symptom, Dr. Anderson describes as prolapsus.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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This, the coming-of-Buddha symptom, Dr. Anderson describes as prolapsus.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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For reduction of prolapsus ani, .... .5 00 -- 10 00
Medical Fee Bill Wake County Medical Society 2002
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Nannie still is troubled with the uncomfortable feeling re-sulting from prolapsus uteri.
Diary of Samuel A. Agnew : September 27, 1863-June 30, 1864, 1957
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_Treatment_: When the walls of the vagina become folded upon themselves through abortion, rupture during delivery, excessive indulgence, masturbation, etc. it is called prolapsus.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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The approved treatment for rupture, to which the sailor was painfully liable, was to hang the patient up by the heels until the prolapsus was reduced.
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It overcrowds the abdominal and thoracic cavities, thus making the breath short and the working of the heart more difficult, also producing a tendency to prolapsus of the various abdominal organs.
Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency R. L. Alsaker
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In the allied department of obstetrics we find chapters on the signs of conception, on the urine in pregnant women, on difficult labor, prolapsus uteri, retention of the placenta, post partum hemorrhage, afterpains, and the oedema of pregnancy.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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Under these circumstances the ligaments lose their elasticity, and as a result we have prolapsus or falling of the womb.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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