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procidence Path.|ˈprəʊ-, ˈprɒsɪdəns|
Now usu. as mod.L. procidentia.
[a. F. procidence ‘a falling downe of a thing out of its place’, or ad. L. prōcidentia (Cels.) in Path. prolapse, f. prōcidĕre to fall forward. Often used in L. form.]
The slipping of an organ or structure from its normal position; prolapsus. Freq. distinguished from prolapse or restricted to the more severe kinds (see later quots.).
1601Holland Pliny xxi. xix, Violets have a peculiar vertue..to help the procidence or falling downe both of tuill and matrice, and to reduce them again into their places. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 388 Another disease called Procidentia ani, that is to say, the falling out of the fundament. 1640E. Chilmead tr. Ferrand's Erotique Melanch. ii. 15 These women were troubled with the Procidence of the Matrix. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 112 This [prolapse of the vagina]..may..be a relaxation, procidence, prolapse or complete inversion of the organ. 1829S. Cooper Good's Study of Med. (ed. 3) V. 146 If the descent [of the uterus] be only to the middle of the vagina, it is called relaxatio uteri; if to the labiæ, procidentia; if lower than the labiæ, prolapsus. The distinction is of trifling importance. 1888A. H. N. Lewers Pract. Text-bk. Dis. Women viii. 113 When the uterus has partly, or wholly passed the orifice of the vulva, the case is called one of ‘procidentia’. Ibid. 114 In extreme cases of procidentia the whole uterus lies outside. 1903J. P. Tuttle Treat. Dis. Anus xvii. 667 Procidentia..is practically always applied to those cases in which all the coats of the bowel descend. 1956H. E. Bacon et al. Proctology xviii. 215 The difference between prolapse and procidentia lies in the coats of the bowel involved. Ibid. 218 Protruding through the anal orifice, procidentia is diagnosed from a series of circular folds irregularly placed. 1974Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. III. xxviii. 62/2 In third degree prolapse (procidentia) the whole uterus lies outside the introitus.
So ˈprocident a., falling forward; prolapsed.
1889J. M. Duncan Lect. Dis. Women ii. (ed. 4) 7 On her side, a woman can easily press out a replaced procident uterus. Ibid. l. 417 When the patient came to us, the womb was not procident. |