Crossword-Solution: VOLVULUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Volvulus | n. | The spasmodic contraction of the intestines which causes colic. |
| Volvulus | n. | Any twisting or displacement of the intestines causing obstruction; ileus. See Ileus. |
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Sentences with VOLVULUS (5)
The diseases that appendicitis may be confounded with and must be differentiated from are obstruction, renal colic, hepatic colic, gastritis, enteritis, salpingitis, peritonitis due to gastric or intestinal ulcer, enterolith, obstipation, invagination or intussusception, hernia, external or internal, volvulus, stricture and typhoid fever.
The following are its chief causes: (1) strangulation by bands or adhesions or through apertures; (2) volvulus; (3) the impaction of foreign bodies; (4) acute intussusception; (5) strangulation over a band or acute kinking of the gut; (6) the termination supervening on chronic obstruction; (7) congenital malformations of the intestines.
The sigmoid flexure is the situation in which volvulus most commonly takes place, but it may occur in the caecum and small intestine.
The authors found an immature female _Onchocerca volvulus_ in a lymphatic vessel partly obstructed by an infiltration of fibrin and leucocytes.
Inflammation of the intestines ileus, volvulus, enteritis; generally sudden assault of excruciating, fixed, and increasing pain, in some degree affecting the whole abdomen, but more pungent about the navel; with nausea, frequent vomiting of food and drink, and sometimes of intestinal feculence; obstinate costiveness, severe gripes, eructation, flatulence: the fever sometimes succeeding, sometimes preceding, the local pain; and of which there are exacerbations and remissions, and various gradations.