Prolapse

Definition: Prolapse

Prolapse

Noun

1. The slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus).

Verb

1. Of body parts: "prolapsed rectum".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Health

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Prolapse

Crosswords: Prolapse

Books

• Confronting Mitral Valve Prolapse Syndrome (reference)

• Mitral Valve Prolapse Syndrome/Dysautonomia Survival Guide (reference)

• Mitral Valve: Floppy Mitral Valve, Mitral Valve Prolapse, Mitral Valvular Regurgitation (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

Severe infections in young children can result in serious disease with bloody diarrhea and a condition called rectal prolapse. (references)

Severe or chronic prolapse requires surgery to strengthen and tighten the anal sphincter muscle or to repair the prolapsed lining. (references)

For example, the doctor may recommend discontinuing medication or performing surgery to correct an anorectal problem such as rectal prolapse. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "prolapse": Aortic Valve Prolapse ♦ Heart Valve Prolapse ♦ mitral valve prolapse ♦ prolapse of the vagina ♦ Rectal Prolapse ♦ Tricuspid Valve Prolapse ♦ Uterine Prolapse. Additional references.

Albanian

shkarje organi, rënie (abatement, bathos, collapse, come down, decadence, decadency, decay, decline, decrepitude, degeneracy, degradation, degression, depression, descent, dilapidation, downfall, drop, drop off, fall, falling, flop, incidence, lapse, letdown, precipitation, recession, regress, spill, taper, tumble, wane). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هبوط عضو عن موضعه, ‏الهبوط (falling down), ‏التدلي. (various references)

Bulgarian 

смъквам се, пролапс (prolapsus), изпадане (lapse), изпадам (fly into, lapse, pass into). (various references)

Czech

výhřez. (various references)

Danish

prolaps (descensus, protrusion). (various references)

Dutch

prolaps (descensus, descent, protrusion). (various references)

Finnish

prolapsus valvae mitralis (mitral valve prolapse), hiippaläpän prolapsi (mitral valve prolapse), Barlowin oireyhtymä (mitral valve prolapse). (various references)

French

prolapsus (prolapsus, proptosis, protrusion). (various references)

German

Prolaps (descensus, protrusion), prolabieren. (various references)

Greek 

πρόπτωση μήτρασ (prolapsus). (various references)

Hebrew 

צ� יח�" (bailing out, falling down, parachuting). (various references)

Hungarian

süllyedés (depression, letdown, settling, sinking, swag, swale, yield), elõreesés. (various references)

Italian

prolasso (descensus, protrusion). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

脱肛 (anal prolapse). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

� っ�"う (anal prolapse, completion of a manuscript, finishing writing). (various references)

Manx

deamey (beetle-browed, jut, jutting out, lean out, project, projection, protrude, thrust out). (various references)

Pig Latin

olapsepray

Portuguese

prolapso. (various references)

Russian 

выпадать (come, fall out, precipitate, prolapsus), пролапс. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prolaps, prolabirati, ispasti (fall out, turn out), ispadanje (fall out, fallout). (various references)

Spanish

prolapso (prolapsus). (various references)

Swedish

framfall. (various references)

Turkish

yerinden oynamak, sarkmak (bag, beetle, dangle, drape, droop, flag, hang, hang down, hang out, impend, lean out, lie over, lop, overhang, sag, slouch), sarkma (droop, hang, hanging, prolapsus, ptosis, sag, slouch), organın yerinden kayması (prolapsus), kaymak (aquaplane, cream, glide, glissade, head, lapse, skate, ski, skimmings, slide, slip, slither, slump). (various references)

Ukrainian

пролапс (prolapsus). (various references)

conversio, conversione, conversionem. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "prolapse": prolapsed, prolapses. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: sapropel.

-1 letter: apposer, lappers, loppers, paroles, poplars, propels, rappels, reposal, slapper.

-2 letters: appels, apples, appose, aslope, lapper, lapser, lopers, lopper, operas, papers, pareos, parles, parole, parols, pearls, peplos, polars, polers, poplar, proles, propel, rappel, sapper, sloper, soaper, splore, sporal.

-3 letters: aloes, apers, appel, apple, apres, arles, arose, asper, earls, lapse, lares, laser, leaps, lears, loper.

+1 letter: appellors, oilpapers, prolapsed, prolapses, sapropels.

+2 letters: phalaropes, piperonals, polyparies, popularise, propagules.

+3 letters: fleahoppers, laparoscope, leafhoppers, leptospiral, polariscope, popularised, popularises, popularizes, pourparlers, propellants, prophylaxes, repopulates, semipopular, spheroplast, supportable.

+4 letters: copperplates, craftspeople, laparoscopes, papyrologies, pilocarpines, plecopterans, polariscopes, polygraphers, popularities, popularizers, postimperial, protoplanets, spheroplasts, superposable, tradespeople.

+5 letters: amphiprostyle, bipropellants, blepharoplast, blepharospasm, cephalosporin, cyclopropanes, doppelgangers, insupportable, laparoscopies, lepidopterans, overpopulates, paleographers, paleographies, phosphorylase, phosphorylate, planographies, preceptorials, premenopausal, prepositional, prosencephala, repopularizes, repopulations, superdiplomat, superpersonal, unsupportable.