prolapsus
Americannoun
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prolapsuses
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Her tonic promised to cure everything from menstrual cramps to infertility to prolapsus uteri.
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2014
One beautiful child had the rickets, and several suffered from intestinal prolapsus and other internal complaints, but were on the road to recovery.
From The Living Present by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Falling of the Womb.—The most distressing of all these displacements is that known as "prolapsus, or falling of the womb."
From Treatise on the Diseases of Women by Lydia Estes Pinkham
If the rectum be affected there is considerable discharge of mucus, and later prolapsus ani may be the result.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
This is a very frequent complaint after bad labours, the fundus uteri becomes inverted and descends like the prolapsus ani.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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