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Ptosis

noun
(pl. ptoses)
1.
Drooping of the upper eyelid caused by muscle paralysis and weakness.



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... the Edinburgh Medical Journal for March, 1883, advises a procedure that has always looked favorably to me, and which I once put in practice through the means of the ordinary ptosis fenestrated forceps, in place of the ordinary circumcision forceps, the sutures being introduced through the fenestra and the prepuce cut off on the outer side of the forceps, the thickness of the steel arm on the outer side of ...
— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present - Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance • Peter Charles Remondino


Words linked to "Ptosis" :   prolapse, prolapsus, descensus, brow ptosis


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