What's the difference between descensus and prolapse?
Descensus
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Prolapse
Definition:
(n.) The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum.
(v. i.) To fall down or out; to protrude.
Example Sentences:
(1) In conclusion, abdominal Marlex-mesh rectopexy can be recommended as safe and effective treatment for rectal prolapse, despite some patients developing constipation and some remaining incontinent.
(2) There were two postoperative stomal prolapses, one of which necessitated reoperation.
(3) Faecal incontinence may be due to a trauma, a rectal prolapse, or a neurological disorder.
(4) Iris prolapse did not interfere with the procedure.
(5) Echocardiograms showed good left ventricular function and a large coil of apparent thrombus in the right atrium prolapsing into the right ventricle.
(6) It was not related to a greater degree of dilatation of the tricuspid ring but to more severe septal and right ventricular infarction causing prolapse of the septal and posterior septal leaflets into the right atrium.
(7) Two treatment policies for rectal prolapse were prospectively assessed between April 1986 and January 1989.
(8) The diagnostic accuracy of CT in cases of lumbar disk prolapse was investigated on the basis of a group of 158 of our own patients who were divided into three separate groups.
(9) Findings consistent with aortic regurgitation were identified in 8, and 18 had mitral valve prolapse.
(10) Posterior mitral valve leaflet prolapse is not a frequent anomaly in routinely performed left ventriculography.
(11) For patient management, use of an auscultatory classification may be preferable to the technically generated term "mitral valve prolapse."
(12) Of these 65 donors, 46 had normal studies, nine had pericardial effusions, five had mild septal hypokinesia with otherwise normal function, four had equivocal mitral valve prolapse, and only one heart could not be visualized.
(13) Echocardiography revealed no difference in left ventricular mass index nor prevalence of mitral valve prolapse.
(14) IVP in both the cases of irreducible prolapse and retention of urine revealed hydroureter and hydronephrosis bilaterally.
(15) Recurrence of full-thickness rectal prolapse was found in only 2 patients-(1.5 percent).
(16) This conclusion has been drawn by the authors of this paper from their own therapeutic results obtained from 37 cases of anorectal prolapse in childhood, with therapeutic sclerosing being used in 23 instances.
(17) Forty-seven of the 55 patients (85%) had symptomatic genital prolapse as an indication for trachelectomy.
(18) Echocardiography allowed preoperative classification of MI in 4 groups: Group 1 (n = 46) with prolapse of the posterior leaflet; Group 2 (n = 4) with prolapse of the anterior leaflet; Group 3 (n = 8) with prolapse of both mitral leaflets; Group 4 (n = 2) with abnormalities of the mitral annulus alone.
(19) In the remainder a wide spectrum of abnormalities was found such as prolapse of the mitral valve (in 13.6%), bicuspid aortal valve with a medium regurgitation (4.5%), hypoplasia of the coronary cusp of the aortal valve (4.5%), dilatation of the ascending aorta with a residual significant stenosis at the site after operation of coarctation of the thoracic aorta (4.5%), subaortal defect of the interventricular septum (4.5%) and slight left ventricular hypertrophy in patients with arterial hypertension (9.1%).
(20) Previous studies have shown that systolic annular nonplanarity can cause apparent prolapse in the four chamber view without actual leaflet displacement above the most superior points of the anulus, and there is evidence for such nonplanarity in vivo.