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Date: 1500-1600
Language: Modern Latin
Origin: prolapsus, from Latin, past participle of prolabi 'to slide forward'

prolapse

 noun
     
Related topics: Illness and Disability
pro‧lapse [countable]
medicalMI the slipping of an inner part of your body, such as the womb, from its usual position
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