Word Meanings - PROLAPSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum. Dunglison.

Related words: (words related to PROLAPSE)

• FALLALS; FAL-LALS
  Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. Thackeray.
• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• FALLER
  A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, falls.
• FALLOW
  Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch , a small European bird, the wheatear . See Wheatear. (more info) vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. fölr, and prob. to Lith.
• CONNECTIVELY
  In connjunction; jointly.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• FALLOPIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus.
• CONNECTEDLY
  In a connected manner.
• FALLENCY
  An exception. Jer. Taylor.
• FALLEN
  Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers.
• FALLFISH
  A fresh-water fish of the United States ; - - called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species.
• THROUGH
  thuru, OFries. thruch, D. door, OHG. durh, duruh, G. durch, Goth. ; 1. From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• UTERUS
  The organ of a female mammal in which the young are developed previous to birth; the womb. Note: The uterus is simply an enlargement of the oviduct, and in the lower mammals there is one on each side, but in the higher forms the two become more
• FALLING
  from Fall, v. i. Falling away, Falling off, etc. See To fall away, To fall off, etc., under Fall, v. i. -- Falling band, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century. -- Falling sickness
• FALLIBLY
  In a fallible manner.
• FALLAX
  Cavillation; a caviling. Cranmer.
• CONNECTIVE
  Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection. Connection tissue See Conjunctive tissue, under Conjunctive.
• FALLOWNESS
  A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. Bartlett.
• NATURALLY
  In a natural manner or way; according to the usual course of things; spontaneously.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• UNFALLIBLE
  Infallible. Shak.
• MISFALL
  To befall, as ill luck; to happen to unluckily. Chaucer.
• BEFALL
  To happen to. I beseech your grace that I may know The worst that may befall me. Shak.
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• INFALLIBLY
  In an infallible manner; certainly; unfailingly; unerringly. Blair.
• DELTA CONNECTION
  One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.
• RAINFALL
  A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region. Supplied by the rainfall of the outer ranges of Sinchul and Singaleleh. Hooker.
• JAW-FALLEN
  Dejected; chopfallen.
• CRESTFALLEN
  1. With hanging head; hence, dispirited; dejected; cowed. Let it make thee crestfullen; Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride. Shak. 2. Having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging to one side; -- said of a horse.