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1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. xcv. f. 67^v, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe And also an other disease called Procidentia ani, that is to say the falling out of the fundament, which the Phisitians do accoumpt as seuerall diseases.

1686 Philos. Trans. 1685 (Royal Soc.) 15 877 As to the symptoms that attend its Venome, they are swelling in the Head, and (as a peculiar Characteristick, the swelling and Procidentia Ani, insomuch that the Rectum will hang out above half a foot.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 446/1 Procidentia Uteri, is a Relaxing of the inner Tunick of the Vagina of the Womb, which falls through the privities.

1706 J. Floyer Hist. Cold Bathing (ed. 2) iv. 128 By this Cure we may be directed to try the Virtue of Cold Baths in the Procidentia Uteri & Ani, and in the Tumours of the Hæmorrhoids.

1780 T. Denman Ess. Difficult Labours 59 When the pelvis is large and the head of the child..drops by its own weight into the lower part of the cavity of the pelvis, the accident often becomes a cause of a procidentia or prolapsis [sic] of the uterus.

1888 A. H. N. Lewers Pract. Text-bk. Dis. Women viii. 113 When the uterus has partly, or wholly passed the orifice of the vulva, the case is called one of ‘procidentia’.

1917 Lancet 24 Nov. 790/1 A great deal has been written on the causes of procidentia recti and procidentia uteri.

1963 Jrnl. Psychosomatic Res. 7 231 The mobilization of the third eyelid of the cat, or procidentia of the nictitating membrane.

2005 European Urol. 47 874/1 No uterine cervix procidentia occurred in female patients.