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prolapse

/ˈpɹoʊlæps/

prolapse verb: to move out of place; especially for an internal organ to protrude beyond its normal position.

Verb

prolapse (third-person singular simple present prolapses, present participle prolapsing, simple past and past participle prolapsed)

  1. (intransitive) To move out of place; especially for an internal organ to protrude beyond its normal position.

Noun

prolapse (countable and uncountable, plural prolapses)

  1. A moving out of place, especially a protrusion of an internal organ.

prolapse meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Kannada

prolapse in Tamil

அடிகாணுதல், அடித்தள்ளுதல், உறுப்பு வெளித் தள்ளுதல், வெளித்தொங்கல், சரிவு, பிதுக்கம்

prolapse in Bengali

অঙ্গচ্যুতি, কোনো দেহাংশের স্থানচ্যুতি

prolapse in Kannada

ಸರಿತ, ಜರಿತ, ಭ್ರಂಶ, ಜಾರು, ಸರಿ, ಚ್ಯುತವಾಗು

Forms of prolapse

Verb
third-person singular presentprolapses
present participleprolapsing
past participleprolapsed
pastprolapsed
Noun
pluralprolapses
alternative formprolapsus

Past tense of prolapse: prolapsed

Origin of prolapse

Learned borrowing from Latin prolapsus.

Questions about prolapse

What does prolapse mean?
Prolapse means to move out of place; especially for an internal organ to protrude beyond its normal position.
What is prolapse in Tamil?
Prolapse in Tamil is அடிகாணுதல், அடித்தள்ளுதல், உறுப்பு வெளித் தள்ளுதல். See Prolapse meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is prolapse?
Prolapse can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce prolapse?
Prolapse is pronounced /ˈpɹoʊlæps/ (US).
What is the past tense of prolapse?
The past tense of prolapse is prolapsed.

Words near prolapse in the dictionary

  1. prolamellar
  2. prolamin
  3. prolamine
  4. prolamines
  5. prolamins
  6. prolapse
  7. prolapsed
  8. prolapses
  9. prolapsi
  10. prolapsing
  11. prolapsion

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prolapse (page history and authors); prolapse (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); prolapse (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); prolapse (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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