different between volvulus vs ileus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin volvulus (“tending to roll”), from volvo (“I roll”) +? -ulus (“tending to, inclined to”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v?l.vj?l.?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?v?l.vj?l.?s/

Noun

volvulus (countable and uncountable, plural volvuli or volvuluses)

1. (medicine) Obstruction of the bowel in which a loop of bowel has abnormally twisted on itself.

Translations

Further reading

• volvulus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

From volvo (“I roll”) +? -ulus (“tending to, inclined to”).

Pronunciation

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vol.vu.lus/, [?v?lvulus]

Adjective

volvulus (feminine volvula, neuter volvulum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (New Latin) Tending to roll.

   Onchocerca volvulus

Inflection

First/second-declension adjective.

Descendants

• ? English: volvulus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?leus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (eileós, “intestinal obstruction”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??li?s/

Noun

ileus (plural ileuses or ilei)

1. (medicine, modern usage) Disruption of the normal propulsive ability of the gastrointestinal tract, due to failure of peristalsis.
2. (medicine, broad definition, now rare) Disruption of the normal propulsive ability of the gastrointestinal tract from any cause.
   • 1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, Volume II: Classes of Diseases, IV: Diseases of Association, Ordo III: Retrograde Associate Motions, Genus II: Catenated with sensitive motions,

     The perpetual vomiting in ileus is caused in like manner by the defective excitement of the sensorial power of association by the bowel, which is torpid during the intervals of pain; and the stomach sympathizes with it.

   • 1849, Hippocrates, Francis Adams (translator), Aphorisms,

     When ileus comes on in a case of strangury, they prove fatal in seven days, unless, fever supervening, there be a copious discharge of urine.

   • 1921, Western Osteopathic Association, et al., The Western osteopath, Volume 16, page 20,

     You must expect to lose from 40% to 60% of all acute post operative ileuses, and about 20% of your sub-acute cases.

   • 2002, Douglas H. Slatter, Textbook of Small Animal Surgery, Volume 1, page 420,

     Thus, ileus also has potential detrimental effects in sterile peritonitis by providing a source and mechanism for entry of bacteria into the peritoneal cavity.

     Other factors commonly encountered in animals with peritonitis may also predispose to adynamic ileus.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• volvulus

References

• Dorland's Pocket Medical Dictionary, 22nd edition, W. B. Saunders, 1977

• “ileus” in The Concise Oxford Dictionary, seventh edition, Oxford University Press, 1982.
• ileus at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Lieus

Czech

Noun

ileus m

1. ileus

Further reading

• ileus in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• ileus in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989