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Definition of Nephroptosis
1. Noun. Prolapse of the kidney.
Medical Definition of Nephroptosis
1. Prolapse of the kidney. Origin: nephro-+ G. Ptosis, a falling (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nephroptosis
Literary usage of Nephroptosis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1911)
"The primary etiological factor in the production of nephroptosis is relaxation
or absence of the ..."
2. The Surgical Diseases of the Genito-urinary Organs by Edward Lawrence Keyes (1905)
"CHAPTER XXXIV MOVABLE OR FLOATING KIDNEY—nephroptosis THE kidney is naturally
endowed with a certain degree of mobility. Like the other abdominal viscera it ..."
3. Diseases of the digestive system by Frank Billings (1906)
"DISPLACEMENT OF THE KIDNEYS—WANDERING KIDNEY— nephroptosis While displacement of
the stomach almost invariably develops after puberty, displacement of the ..."
4. Lectures to General Practitioners on the Diseases of the Stomach and by Boardman Reed (1904)
"... but since the surgeons by the great prominence which they have given to movable
kidney (nephroptosis), have familiarized the profession and laity both ..."
5. Constipation and Intestinal Obstruction (obstipation) by Samuel Goodwin Gant (1909)
"TREATMENT OF nephroptosis More attention should be paid to the non-surgical
treatment of wandering kidney than to operative measures, ..."
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