descensus uteri

1. 1.

   prolapse of the uterus

   Synonymsmetroptosis

   Broaderprolapse

Questions about descensus uteri

What does descensus uteri mean?

descensus uteri means "prolapse of the uterus".

What is another word for descensus uteri?

Close synonyms include metroptosis. 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 uteri a common word?

descensus uteri 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.