prolapsed

Meaning of prolapsed

adjective
  1. (of a part or organ of the body) displaced from its normal position, especially downwards or outwards, often so as to protrude from an orifice.
    a prolapsed uterus
verb, past tense
  1. (of a part or organ of the body) become displaced from its normal position, especially downwards or outwards, often so as to protrude from an orifice.
    her womb has prolapsed

late 17th century: from Latin prolaps- ‘slipped forward’, from the verb prolabi, from pro- ‘forward, down’ + labi ‘to slip’.

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Hyphenation of prolapsed

pro-lapsed

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
  • prolapsed is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with prolapsed

collapsed, delapsed, elapsed, illapsed, lapsed, nonrelapsed, precollapsed, relapsed, synapsed, uncollapsed, unelapsed, unlapsed, eclipsed, noneclipsed, traipsed, uneclipsed, foreglimpsed, glimpsed, unglimpsed, copsed, woopsed, corpsed, incorpsed

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