prolapse
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When these muscles become overly tight or loose, patients can experience issues like pelvic pain, pelvic organ prolapse, sexual dysfunction, and incontinence—which all have serious implications if left untreated.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025
Now, just over a year on, Miss Cotson said she lived with chronic pain, prolapse, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue.
From BBC ● May 2, 2025
Wendy Gibbs, 80, had been due to be operated on by Marc Lamah to repair a pelvic prolapse at a private hospital in Brighton, run by Nuffield Health.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2025
Most commonly caused by childbirth, prolapse occurs when pelvic organs that serve as walls supporting the vagina collapse, like the cervix or the uterus.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2024
A small button hole iridectomy was made; prolapse of the iris into the wound occurred four days later requiring incision.
From Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 by Willis O. Nance
Dr Dixon built up an international reputation as the go-to expert for patients with prolapsed bowels.
From BBC ● May 12, 2025
The doctors’ verdict: Devi had suffered a prolapsed uterus and would need a hysterectomy.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2023
The Doctors An update on a woman who underwent surgery for a prolapsed uterus; nutrition trends; bad grammar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2018
Her doctor used a suction device to deliver her son, and afterward told her to expect problems with a prolapsed uterus.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2015
In these the external wounds were often large, the omentum was not rarely prolapsed, and escape of fæces sometimes occurred early.
From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by George Henry Makins
At nearly 18 weeks, Zurawski was diagnosed with an incompetent cervix, a condition that causes premature dilation and prolapsing membranes.
From Slate ● Mar. 7, 2023
Their eyes widen and fall at the same time as if their social skills are prolapsing, and their voice falters as they are the most honest they’ve been all year.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2016
The building next to us seems to be demolishing itself: huge ventilation panels, satellite dishes and other nondescript chunks of edifice-guttery keep prolapsing and crashing down onto its lower roof.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2015
