English Dictionary

ptosis

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈtəʊ.sɪs/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

(medicine) The prolapse of a bodily organ, especially drooping of the eyelid or the breasts.

日本語の意味

器官の下垂、脱垂。特に、眼瞼下垂（まぶたが下がる状態）や乳房下垂（乳房が垂れ下がる状態）を指す。

After months of intermittent vision problems, she was finally diagnosed with ptosis and scheduled for corrective surgery.

数か月にわたる断続的な視力の問題の後、彼女はついに眼瞼下垂と診断され、矯正手術の予定が組まれた。

意味（1）

(medicine) 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.

ptoses （ plural ）