different between eyelid vs ptosis

English

Etymology

From Middle English eyelidd, eye-led, ei?elid, eghe-lydd, y?e-lydd, ehlid, yhelidd, equivalent to eye +? lid. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Oogenlid (“eyelid”), West Frisian eachlid (“eyelid”), Dutch ooglid (“eyelid”), German Low German Ooglidd (“eyelid”), German Augenlid (“eyelid”).

Generally superseded non-native Middle English palpebre (“eyelid”), borrowed from Latin palpebra (“eyelid”) (see Modern English palpebra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?.l?d/

Noun

eyelid (plural eyelids)

1. A thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye.

Synonyms

• blepharon
• palpebra

Synonyms

• blepharon

Derived terms

• bat an eyelid
• eyelidded
• eyelidless
• hang by the eyelids

Related terms

• eyebrow
• eyelash

Translations

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (ptôsis, “falling, fall”), from ????? (pípt?, “to fall down”) +? -??? (-sis, nominal suffix). First used in 1710

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??.s?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?to?.s?s/
• Rhymes: -??s?s

Noun

ptosis (countable and uncountable, plural ptoses)

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

Derived terms

Anagrams

• posits

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tosis/, [?t?o.sis]
• Rhymes: -osis

Noun

ptosis f (plural ptosis)

1. (medicine) ptosis