prolapsus
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Her tonic promised to cure everything from menstrual cramps to infertility to prolapsus uteri.
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2014
Those for prolapsus will be given first:— The patient should lie upon a rug, or on a firm long sofa or couch.
From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Allen, Martha Meir
Studsgaard mentions that in the pathologic collection at Copenhagen there is a long, smooth stone, 17 cm. long, weighing 900 gm., which a peasant had introduced into his rectum to relieve prolapsus.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
There are three kinds of displacements: anteversion, retroversion, and prolapsus.
From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Allen, Martha Meir
In addition to his general ailments, he suffered from extreme prolapsus of the rectum and a most painful anal fissure.
From Plain Facts for Old and Young by Kellogg, John Harvey
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