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ptosis

/ˈtəʊ.sɪs/ UK
/ˈtoʊ.sɪs/ US

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From Ancient Greek πτῶσις (ptôsis, “falling, fall”), from πίπτω (píptō, “to fall down”) + -σις (-sis, nominal suffix). First used in 1710.

noun ptoses

countable, uncountable The prolapse of a bodily organ, especially drooping of the eyelid or the breasts. There were many other factors to be taken into account: Miss West’s age, the type of enlargement, whether the condition was one of pure hypertrophy, the degree of ptosis present, the actual scale of enlargement and, finally, the presence of any pathology in the breast tissue itself.

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noun the prolapse of a bodily organ

Español	ptosis
Français	ptôse
Русский	птоз ptoz, опуще́ние opuščénije, отвиса́ние otvisánije

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@misc{ptosis_2026,
  title = {ptosis},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ptosis},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}