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Definition of Ptotic
1. ptosis [adj] - See also: ptosis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ptotic
Literary usage of Ptotic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1915)
"There is a racial as well as a family tendency to this body type. There is no
doubt that the extreme ptotic type found in the British and French ..."
2. Constipation and Intestinal Obstruction (obstipation) by Samuel Goodwin Gant (1909)
"When a ptotic viscus cannot be replaced, it should be restored as nearly as
possible, and the amount of relief secured will be proportionate to the degree ..."
3. Gynecology by Brooke Melancthon Anspach (1921)
"Exercises for ptotic patients. Exaggerated expansion of the chest with arms above
the head. (After Martin.) igue, foetid breath, headache, malaise, ..."
4. A Handbook of Medical Diagnosis: For the Use of Practitioners and Students by James Cornelius Wilson (1915)
"The ptotic stomach is usually more or less dilated. The emptying time of the
dilated, atonic, or ptotic stomach is from seven hours to indefinite. ..."
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