This downward displacement was diagnosed as “Glenard’s disease” over a hundred years ago.

It was diagnosed by French physician Frantz Glenard (1848-1920), and was also called visceroptosis and enteroptosis.

Today Glenard’s disease is so ubiquitous it’s not even considered a medical problem.

Yet imagine a spleen so ptosed (prolapsed) that it can be mistaken for a uterine fibroid.

Or imagine a stomach situated below the hips.

Or a liver split in half by displaced ribs.

Or a heart misshapen by the displacement of other organs.

splanchnoptosis = prolapsed spleen

gastroptosis = prolapsed stomach

hepatotosis = prolapsed liver

nepthrotosis = prolapsed kidney

coloptosis = prolapsed colon

The main cause of Glenard’s disease is obesity, specifically Central Obesity..

A secondary cause is flabbiness.

Another cause is chair-sitting, although partial immunity is offered by sitting in a high-backed rocking chair.

Another cause is a crooked spine, especially …

kyphosis = roundback / hunchback / dowager’s hump

lordosis = saddle back / hollow back

scoliosis = S-shaped spine (sometimes scoliosis occurs as a C-shaped spine)