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procident

procident adjective: displaced beyond the limits of a body cavity.

Adjective

procident (comparative more procident, superlative most procident)

  1. Displaced beyond the limits of a body cavity.
    • Thus the procident uterus may be removed, either by the knife alone, by the ligature, or by excision, immediately after the ligature ; this combined method being probably the safest and most desirable.1845, Samuel Ashwell, A practical treatise on the diseases peculiar to women
    • No fact is more evident than the eccentric hypertrophy of the body of the uterus, and this without the uterus being procident or even prolapsed.1869, Isaac Ebenezer Taylor, On Amputation of the Cervix Uteri

Forms of procident

comparativemore procident
superlativemost procident

Questions about procident

What does procident mean?
Procident means displaced beyond the limits of a body cavity.
What part of speech is procident?
Procident is an adjective.

Words near procident in the dictionary

  1. prochymase
  2. prochymases
  3. prochymosin
  4. procidence
  5. procidences
  6. procident
  7. procidentia
  8. prociduous
  9. procimequat
  10. procimequats
  11. procimidone

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