the sinking or falling down of an organ or part, esp the womb
Compare proptosis
verb(intransitive)
2.
(of an organ, etc) to sink from its normal position
Word origin
C17: from Latin prōlābi to slide along, from pro-1 + lābī to slip
Examples of 'prolapsus' in a sentence
prolapsus
Her medical history revealed acute rheumatic fever with cardiac involvement and mitral valve prolapsus.
Arzu ÇİFTÇİ, Gülçin TELLİ, Ayşe DEMİRCİ, Berna ÖZDEMİR KEPEK, Ayşegül İnci NARİN,Özlem Güzel TUNÇCAN, Murat DİZBAY, Kenan HIZEL, Firdevs AKTAŞ, Dilek ARMAN 2010, 'A Case of Infective Endocarditis Secondary to Tooth Extraction Under Antibiotic Treatment',Flora Infeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Dergisihttp://www.floradergisi.org/getFileContent.aspx?op=REDPDF&file_name=2010-15-3-129-133.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The overall rate of stomal prolapsus was 3,1% in this series.
Özgür Korkmaz, H.Gülşen Yılmaz, İbrahim H. Taçyıldız, Yılmaz Akgün 2008, 'Stoma Prolapse', Dicle Medical Journalhttp://4181.indexcopernicus.com/fulltxt.php?ICID=887184. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)