procident
English
Adjective
procident (comparative more procident, superlative most procident)
- (medicine) Displaced beyond the limits of a body cavity.
- 1845, Samuel Ashwell, A practical treatise on the diseases peculiar to women:
- Thus the procident uterus may be removed, either by the knife alone, by the ligature, or by excision, immediately after the ligature ; this combined method being probably the safest and most desirable.
- 1869, Isaac Ebenezer Taylor, On Amputation of the Cervix Uteri:
- No fact is more evident than the eccentric hypertrophy of the body of the uterus, and this without the uterus being procident or even prolapsed.
- 1915, Charles Montraville Green, Case histories in diseases of women:
- The uterus was found to be no longer somewhat procident, owing evidently to the diminished size and weight, and a pessary was thought unnecessary.
- 2013, Edward Shorter, Partnership for Excellence: Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals, →ISBN:
- One more name is important: George A. Peters, at the Hospital for Sick Children, in ]uly 1899 made the first contribution of the Department of Surgery to the international scientific literature when he successfully transplanted the ureters into the rectum of a two-year-old child who had both an ectopic bladder and a procident rectum.
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Usage notes
A procident organ differs from a herniated organ in that it extends beyond the limits of its normal body cavity but does not push through the muscle wall.
Latin
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