descensus

1. 1.

   the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus)

   Synonymsprolapseprolapsus

   Broaderdisability

   Narrowerenteroptosisglossoptosismetroptosisnephroptosisptosisureteroceleurethrocele

Other forms of descensus

plural

descensuses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about descensus

What does descensus mean?

descensus means "the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus)".

How many syllables are in descensus?

descensus has 3 syllables: de-scen-sus. The stress falls on "de".

What is another word for descensus?

Close synonyms include prolapse, prolapsus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is descensus a common word?

descensus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.