Crossword-Solution: PTOSIS 6 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

While ptosis of organs in the abdomen and a flaccid condition of the musculature of the abdomen are frequent causes of this splanchlnic stasis, and therefore hypotension, especially in women, it is quite possible that suprarenal insufficiency will allow this condition of the splanchnic vessels to occur frequently.

Atonia Gastrica, by which term is understood abdominal relaxation and ptosis of viscera, is a subject of vast importance, as has been proved by the avalanche of literature it has caused during the last decade.

His eyes are placed wide apart, but this effect is lost through ptosis, a species of paralysis of the eyelids, which gives the eyes a half closed appearance, and is responsible for the sleepy look in his face.

There was marked proptosis, subconjunctival ecchymosis, swelling and ecchymosis of the upper lid, and ptosis.

Neil Macleod, in the _Edinburgh Medical Journal_ for March, 1883, advises a procedure that has always looked favorably to me, and which I once put in practice through the means of the ordinary ptosis fenestrated forceps, in place of the ordinary circumcision forceps, the sutures being introduced through the fenestra and the prepuce cut off on the outer side of the forceps, the thickness of the steel arm on the outer side of the fenestra allowing of the properly-sized border for the hold of the sutures.