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PTOSIS

\tˈə͡ʊsɪs], \tˈə‍ʊsɪs], \t_ˈəʊ_s_ɪ_s]\

Definitions of PTOSIS

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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Drooping of the upper eyelid, produced by paralysis of its levator muscle.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

1. A falling or sinking down of any organ. 2. Specifically a drooping of the upper eyelid, due to a fault of development, to paralysis of the levator palpebral muscle, to a weighting of the lid by a tumor, or to recession of the supporting eyeball.

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop

Prolapse of upper eyelid, usually due to paralysis.

1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
By William R. Warner

t[=o]'sis, n. inability to raise the upper eyelid. [Gr.,--piptein, to fall.]

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

Prolapsus -p. Bulbi oculi, Exophthalmia.

1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
By Robley Dunglison

Drooping of upper eyelid from paralysis of a muscle. [Greek]

1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
By Sir Augustus Henry

Paralytic drooping of the upper eyelid.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

A falling, a prolapse; commonly used in the sense of blepharoptosis.

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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