laps-, lab- +

The rate at which the temperature of the atmosphere falls as altitude increases.

From Latin, a slipping, a fall.

1. A slip of the pen or an error in writing from Latin calamarius, "pertaining to a pen", from calamus, "reed, pen", from Greek kalamos.
2. A slip of the pen, an unintentional writing error; especially, in spelling taxonomic names.

Slip of the tongue; from Latin lapsus, a slip; an error; chiefly used in Latin phrases. English pronunciation: LAP suhs LING gwee.

This shows that a lapsus linguae can be embarrassing, to say the least. The situation could also be considered a lapsus memoriae or a "lapse of memory".

There is one more mental lapse, one that involves carelessness in writing: lapsus calami or a slip of the pen. The word calamus was a reed formerly used as a pen.

A lapsus linguae can result from laliophobia or lalophobia

In the world of human relations, a person can suffer from laliophobia (lalophobia); that is, a terror of talking or of stuttering when trying to talk.

An individual's speech difficulty may be aggravated by situations that arise from anxieties or fears of self-consciousness.

Of course, there is also the other condition called, lalomania, a compulsion or abnormal desire to talk excessively. Neither situation is considered desirable in human relations.

See this special presentation about public personalities who have committed various forms of lapsus linguae.

1. Sometimes considered as a symptom of memory foible or error.
2. A slip of the memory, sometimes considered to be a symptom of a mental illness.

An exaggerated terror of tornadoes or hurricanes.

He has planted one better than the one fallen.

Motto on the Seal of the State of South Carolina, U.S.A., and on the Great Seal of the Northwest Territory, USA.

Incapable of collapsing.

1. A slippage or sinking of a body organ or part; such as, a valve of the heart from its usual position.
2. To slip or to fall out of its proper place in the body; prolapsed.
3. A sinking of an organ or other part, especially its appearance at a natural or artificial orifice.
4. Originally in English, "gliding forward".

The falling down or sinking, of a part or viscus, procidentia.

Viscus refers to one of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; especially used in the plural, and applied to the organs contained in the abdomen.

Procidentia refers to falling down; a prolapsus.

1. To fall back into a former mood, state, or way of life; especially, a bad or undesirable one, after coming out of it for a while.
2. To become ill again after seeming to have made a recovery.
3. A return to a former mood, state, or way of life; especially, a bad or undesirable one, after coming out of it for a while.
4. Backsliding; that is, to go back to a bad behavior; to regress, to revert.

The return of signs and symptoms of a disease after a patient has enjoyed a remission. For example, after treatment a patient with cancer of the colon went into remission with no sign or symptom of the tumor, remained in remission for four years, but then suffered a relapse and had to be treated once again for colon cancer.

Someone who relapses; such as, to slip back into a bad habit.

In theology, one of that class of Calvinists who believed that God's decree of election determined that man should fall, in order that the opportunity might be given for securing the redemption of a part of the human race, the decree of salvation being conceived of as formed before or beyond, and not after or following, the lapse, or fall.

The doctrine, belief, or principles of the Supralapsarians.