prolapse

Learned borrowing from Latin prolapsus.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹoʊlæps/

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prolapse (third-person singular simple present prolapses, present participle prolapsing, simple past and past participle prolapsed)

1. (intransitive) To move out of place; especially for an internal organ to protrude beyond its normal position.

prolapse (countable and uncountable, plural prolapses)

1. A moving out of place, especially a protrusion of an internal organ.

• prolapsus

• propales, sapropel

prōlāpse

1. vocative masculine singular of prōlāpsus

prolapse

1. inflection of prolapsar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative