procidence

English

Alternative forms

procidentia

Etymology

Latin procidentia

Noun

procidence (usually uncountable, plural procidences)

(medicine) A falling down; a prolapsus.
- 1685, Samuel Collins, A Systeme of Anatomy […] :
  Ægineta hath made four kinds of Procidence belonging to the Uvea

Related terms

French

Noun

procidence f (plural procidences)

procidence

References

“procidence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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