ptosis
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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πτῶσις (ptôsis, “falling, fall”), from πίπτω (píptō, “to fall down”) + -σις (-sis, nominal suffix). First used in 1710.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtəʊ.sɪs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtoʊ.sɪs/
- Rhymes: -əʊsɪs
Noun
ptosis (countable and uncountable, plural ptoses)
- (medicine) The prolapse of a bodily organ, especially drooping of the eyelid or the breasts.
- 1970, JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition:
- There were many other factors to be taken into account: Miss West’s age, the type of enlargement, whether the condition was one of pure hypertrophy, the degree of ptosis present, the actual scale of enlargement and, finally, the presence of any pathology in the breast tissue itself.
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Translations
the prolapse of a bodily organ
See also
- phthisis (atrophy)
Anagrams
Spanish
Pronunciation
Noun
ptosis f (plural ptosis)
Further reading
- “ptosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28